Israel made a “mistake” in naming former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador to Brazil, a Brazilian official said. “I think it was a misstep by the Israeli government,” Marco Aurelio Garcia, diplomatic adviser to the Brazilian president, told Brazilian public television on Friday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said publicly…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if Brazil won’t approve former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador, Israel won’t offer another diplomat. Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Netanyahu’s comments Wednesday. According to i24news, Israel not having an ambassador in Brazil would represent a “de facto downgrade in relations” between the two countries. Netanyahu’s apparent…
An Brazilian columnist is in hot water for calling into question Jewish loyalties in an ongoing diplomatic row with Israel. “The cordial coexistence here granted to the Jewish community is threatened,” wrote Janio de Freitas, in the fight over over Israel’s appointment of former settler leader Dani Dayan as ambassador to Brasilia. De Freitas, a…
RIO DE JANEIRO — A group of 40 retired Brazilian diplomats signed a statement against Israel’s controversial appointment of former settler leader Dani Dayan as ambassador in Brasila. The career diplomats believe that protocol was bypassed since it was not preceded by any communication with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry or any presentation of Dayan’s credentials…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian Senator Marcelo Crivella, who is also a prominent Evangelical leader of millions, declared that rejecting the appointed Israeli ambassador conveys a pro-boycott message. “Rejecting the ambassador can convey a message that Brazil supports BDS. Leaving Israel without an ambassador won’t help anyone,” he wrote in an article published earlier this…
Israel is expected to withdraw the name of a former settler leader to be its ambassador to Brazil, ending a four-month diplomatic row. Dani Dayan will likely assume the Israeli consulate general position in Los Angeles or New York, according to reports in the Israeli and Brazilian media citing senior Israeli officials. An alternative envoy…
Brazil’s reluctance to accept an Israeli ambassador who is a West Bank settler has set off a diplomatic crisis and led to concerns in the Israeli government that the clash could encourage pro-Palestinian activism against it. The appointment four months ago of Dani Dayan, a former head of the Jewish settlement movement, did not go…
Brazil is refusing to confirm Dani Dayan, who was named as Israeli ambassador to the country. Citing an unnamed senior Brazilian official, the Times of Israel reported Thursday that Brazil plans not to respond to Israel’s request for confirmation in hopes that the Jewish state will eventually name another ambassador. Dayan, a native of Argentina,…
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