Israeli ambassador to Poland fights recall order from prime minister Barak

According to independent Israeli daily Maariw, the Israeli ambassador to Poland Yigal Antebi refused to heed a decision by Israeli prime minister Ekhud Barak who ordered him to return from his post in Warsaw. Maariw wrote that Antebi was supposed to stay in Warsaw for another year. He turned to the Supreme Court of Israel for a decision, to allow him to continue fulfilling his duties as an ambassador in Poland. According to the newspaper, the diplomat also wrote a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, in which he stressed that making his stay in Poland shorter without giving him another position to consider is against the law. Neither the press attache of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw or the spokesman of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the information. (Rzeczpospolita, page A7)