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JERUSALEM, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Israel on Tuesday appointed an ambassador to Turkey, for the first time since the relations between the countries were severed six years ago.
The foreign ministry named Eitan Na'eh, who currently serves as Israel's deputy ambassador in London, as the new envoy.
Na'eh previously served as the ambassador to Azerbaijan. Between 1993 and 1997, he served as the consul general in Ankara.
The appointment is a major component of the reconciliation deal that was signed between Israel and Turkey in June after years of tensions over the fatal Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla in 2010.
The move also came after Kemal Okem, a proxy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had been named as the country's ambassador to Israel, according to Turkish media reports in October.
