CAIRO: The new Israeli ambassador Yaakov Amitai to Egypt who arrived in Cairo on Monday visited the ministry of foreign affairs on Tuesday. Local media reported that he met with Hossam Zaki, the spokesman of the ministry and the Taher Farahat, the responsible official for Israel. The meeting was conducted in secrecy and away from press view. The ambassador, who will be handling work in the near future from his residency in Maadi, after the embassy was stormed in September by angry protesters following the killing of Egyptian soldiers on the border between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it had been following terrorists across the boarder. Israel said the killings were an error, but failed to offer an official apology, which enraged the Egyptian public. Thousands gathered outside the embassy, which lies in a high floor of a residential building in Dokki, calling for the departure of the ambassador and removing the flag. Young men climbed the exterior of the building and lowered the flag, installing the Egyptian one instead. The army guarding the embassy had built a wall separating the protesters from the entry to the building, raising anger and inciting people to break it down. Egyptians then stormed the embassy's lower floor and threw internal documents out the window, of Hebrew and Arabic writing, dating back to 2007. The former ambassador Yitzhak Levanon fled the country following the public anger against the country and the continuous calls for breaking diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Ix8ox Tags: Ambassador, Cairo, Foreign Ministry, Israel Section: Egypt, Latest News, Palestine
