The government on Wednesday approved the appointment of four new Israeli ambassadors, on the recommendation of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
Anna Ben Ezra, head of the planning and project development department in the Foreign Ministry’s public diplomacy division, was named ambassador to Latvia. Ben Ezra previously served as political adviser at Israel’s mission to the European Union and NATO in Brussels, and as head of public diplomacy at the Israeli embassy in Warsaw.
Ido Bromberg, director of the Foreign Ministry’s human rights and international organizations department, was appointed ambassador to Honduras. Bromberg previously served as political adviser in Tokyo and as head of public diplomacy in Paris.
Two further appointments were approved by the government on Sunday under section 19(b) of the government’s rules of procedure. Barak Granot, a former economic attaché at the Israeli embassies in Nairobi and New Delhi, was named ambassador to Nigeria. Oshra Yosef Friedman, deputy director of the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women in the Ministry of Social Equality, was appointed ambassador to Cameroon.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the Foreign Service appointments committee had already approved the Latvia and Honduras appointments. The Nigeria and Cameroon appointments were approved by an examining committee as part of an inter-ministerial tender.
Bromberg arrives in Tegucigalpa as relations between Israel and Honduras continue to warm. In August, Honduras sent an ambassador back to Israel for the first time since the October 7 massacre. Ambassador José Luis Núñez Bennett presented his credentials to President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, where Honduras keeps its embassy. At the ceremony, Herzog said his recent meeting with Honduran President Nasry Asfura had brought news of the ambassador’s return, and that ties between the two countries keep reaching new heights.
