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Meet Yael Lempert, the Jewish-American ambassador in Amman
Lempert’s role involves communicating America’s backing for Israel to a country with growing animosity towards the Jewish state
When Yael Lempert was sworn in as Washington’s new ambassador to Jordan in August, she arrived in a relatively calm Middle East.
Speaking in fluent Arabic in a video introducing herself to the Jordanian people, Lempert laid out an...