Atef Salem Sayed al-Ahl traveled to Tel Aviv on Sunday morning to assume his duties as Egypt's new ambassador in Israel.

Sayed al-Ahl replaced Ambassador Yasser Reda whose Tel Aviv post ended in the first reshuffle of its kind under Egypt's newly-elected president Mohamed Mursi.

Mursi approved the appointment of 35 new ambassadors at the beginning of August and convened with them on Sunday to guide them on Egypt's new international relations policy.