{"id":30028,"date":"2026-04-27T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/27\/israel-names-its-first-ambassador-to-somaliland\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:30:11","slug":"israel-names-its-first-ambassador-to-somaliland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/27\/israel-names-its-first-ambassador-to-somaliland\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Names Its First Ambassador to Somaliland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel Appoints First Ambassador to Somaliland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM: Israel has made a significant diplomatic move by appointing its first ambassador to Somaliland, following its formal recognition of the region earlier this year, according to a statement from the foreign ministry on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Israel became the first nation to acknowledge Somaliland&#8217;s independence, which it declared in 1991 after the civil unrest in Somalia. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Lotem, who currently holds the position of economic ambassador to Africa, will take on the role of Israel&#8217;s envoy to Somaliland. Lotem has previously served as ambassador to Kenya, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment comes after Israel established diplomatic ties with Somaliland in December 2022. Notably, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar visited Somaliland in January to further strengthen these relations.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Appoints First Ambassador to Somaliland JERUSALEM: Israel has made a significant diplomatic move by appointing its first ambassador to Somaliland, following its formal recognition of the region earlier this year, according to a statement from the foreign ministry on Sunday. In December, Israel became the first nation to acknowledge Somaliland&#8217;s independence, which it declared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[30560,38951,1072,38949,38950],"class_list":{"0":"post-30028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"tag-gideon-saar","9":"tag-horn-of-africa","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-michael-lotem","12":"tag-somaliland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}