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Israel's new deputy ambassador starts work in UK

Sharon Bar-Li has spent the last year and a half as director of economic affairs for the Middle East, Africa and Latin America economic department at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

February 28, 2017 09:46
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Israel’s former ambassador to Ghana has taken on the role of the new deputy ambassador to London.

Sharon Bar-Li started work yesterday, the embassy said.

Ambassador Mark Regev welcomed his new deputy on Twitter. He wrote: “Welcome to London @SharonBarli, Israel's new Deputy Ambassador at @IsraelinUK.”

Ms Bar-Li has spent the last year and a half as director of economic affairs for the Middle East, Africa and Latin America at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to that she spent 14 months as ambassador to Liberia, which followed four years of being ambassador to Ghana.  For both positions, she was based in Ghana.