When Rumiana Bachvarova was just a short period into her new position as Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Israel, she went to see her compatriot Nickolay Mladenov in Jerusalem. He took her to the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City. “This small place is the cornerstone of all the conflicts here,” Mladenov told Bachvarova. “But see … The post Meet the trusted diplomat tasked with turning the US-backed ceasefire into peace for Gaza appeared first on Egypt Independent .