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Greek Opposition Leader as Pro-Israel as Current Prime Minister
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - On June 11, 2018, Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the American Jewish Committee's Global Forum in Jerusalem: "It is my personal commitment" to strengthen Israel-Greek ties in the future, "should the Greek people give me the opportunity of leading my people." Arye Mekel, Israel's ambassador to Greece from 2010 to 2014 and a senior fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, said that when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to power, he upgraded ties between Israel and Greece. Mitsotakis is likely to take the ties to even new heights. He is the son of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, a former Greek prime minister who kept a campaign promise and established full diplomatic ties with Israel in 1990 at a time when Greek public opinion was staunchly pro-Arab and anti-Israel.