Ex-settler Leader Dani Dayan: Netanyahu Hasn't Pressured Brazil Enough to Accept My Appointment as Ambassador

Dani Dayan, the former head of the Yesha Council of West Bank Jewish settlements, whom the cabinet has approved as Israel's next ambassador to Brazil, has told Haaretz he believes the Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also foreign minister, have not done enough to pressure the government of Brazil to grant its consent to the appointment. The Brazilian government, in an unsual step, has held granting its consent to the appointment of the former settler leader for more than four months.