Israel Plans to Upgrade Soviet Consular Team
Israel is seeking to raise the level of its first mission in the Soviet Union since 1967 by appointing a senior diplomat to head the consular delegation, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
He said Israel will soon seek Soviet approval for Arye Levine, who has the rank of a deputy director-general of the ministry, to replace first secretary Miron Gordon as head of the mission.
The Soviet Union, which severed relations with the Jewish state during the 1967 Six-Day War, sent a consular delegation to Israel last year and allowed an Israeli delegation to go to Moscow this summer.
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