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Source: http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/meet-israels-ambassador-mark-regev-lets-create-a-new-climate/
Meet Israel's New UK Ambassador
(Jewish News-UK) Jenni Frazer - Israel's ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, says: "Because of common threats coming from Iran and groups like ISIS, we are seeing a strategic realignment, where today Israel is talking to more Arab states than ever before in the history of the Jewish state....I am talking about other countries who were traditionally hostile to Israel or very stand-offish to Israel but today we are having conversations." Regev, in the UK since March, points to the healthy bilateral trade figures between Britain and Israel - "a doubling in the last decade" - as a sign that the boycott campaign has "completely failed." He says: "Britain is our second largest export market after the United States," and revealed that Israel has been in preliminary talks with Britain about "codifying" a trade deal in the wake of the Brexit vote.