Warming Uzbek-Israeli ties focus on innovation, tourismAmbassador of Israel to Uzbekistan Edward Shapira gave an
interview to an Israeli journalist Larry Luxner.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — During World War II, the family of
Eddie Shapira’s mother fled the Nazi occupation of their native Kishinev,
Moldova, taking refuge in the faraway Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.
No one imagined that half a century later, Shapira would
join the Israeli Foreign Ministry and be sent as a junior officer to Tashkent —
or that eventually, following assignments in Ukraine, Thailand, Russia and
Belarus, he’d one day return to an independent Uzbekistan as Israel’s top
diplomat here…
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