The Foreign Ministry has defended the appointment of the new ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Yissacharoff, after a Maariv newspaper article revealed that Yissacharof's son serves as the spokesman for Breaking the Silence.
The German foreign minister recently visited Israel and insisted on meeting with Breaking the Silence whose spokesman, Dean Yissacharoff is the ambassador's son.
However the ministry decried the "persecution and denigration" of the ambassador and praised him as a "brilliant diplomat, an honest and just person and a senior member of the ministry."