Four years after its abrupt closure in the face of a savage mob intent upon its destruction, Israel’s embassy in Cairo is again “open for business.”
The ceremony to re-dedicate the embassy this week was attended by Israeli foreign ministry director-general Dore Gold, together with Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Chaim Koren, although the office remains in Koren’s residence until an appropriate building can be found.
This past June, Hazem Khairat was appointed by Cairo to fill the post of Egyptian Ambassador to Israel. The previous ambassador was recalled by ousted Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Morsi in 2012 as a protest over Israel’s defensive actions against Hamas. Gaza’s ruling Hamas terror group was formed by Egypt’s now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
“Under the leadership of Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu and President [Abdel Fattah] el-Sisi we have seen off threats and we are working with Egypt to achieve stability in the region,” Gold said at the event, according to Al Ahram.
Gold added that “Egypt will always remain the region’s biggest and most significant country.”
The deaths of six Egyptian border guards in a clash between Israeli security and Palestinian Arab terrorists near the Egyptian border, became the “cause” for the rioters who destroyed Israel’s Cairo embassy in September 2011, according to Al Ahram.