The newly-appointed Jordanian Ambassador to Israel is expected to arrive in Tel Aviv on Monday to present his credentials at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On June 19 Jordan’s King Abdullah II green-lighted a Council of Minister’s decision nominating Ghassan al-Majali a new envoy to Israel.
An agreement signed between Amman and Tel Aviv in 1994 and commonly known as the Wadi Araba Accord in the presence of the then US President Bill Clinton signaled a go-ahead for socio-economic and political exchange between the two sides.
Back in 2017 Israel and Jordan were embroiled in a diplomatic standoff following the shooting deaths of two Jordanians in July by an Israeli security guard who Israel claimed opened fire in self-defense after one of the men tried to stab him.
Israel and Jordan reached an agreement to end the diplomatic fight in January when a Jordanian government spokesperson said he had received from Israel an “official memorandum” apologizing for the deaths of the two Jordanians as well as for the killing of a Jordanian judge in a separate incident in 2014.
The Jordanian spokesperson Mohammad Momani said at the time that Israel had agreed to comply with all the kingdom’s preconditions for resuming regular diplomatic relations between the two sides. Those included he said bringing legal action against the Israeli security guard and offering financial compensation to the bereaved Jordanian families.
