Jordan has barred the Israeli ambassador from returning to Amman unless Israel agrees to prosecute a security guard involved in a deadly shooting at the embassy last month, according to a newspaper close to the government. The guard, Ziv Moyal, killed two Jordanians after one of them, a 17-year-old carpenter, stabbed him with a screwdriver. A Jordanian doctor, the landlord of the embassy residence, was also killed in the crossfire. After the incident Mr Moyal returned to Israel with the rest of the embassy staff. He received a warm welcome from the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who praised him for “acting well [and] calmly”.

Source: The Times August 14, 2017 10:52 UTC