Israeli officials expressed confidence on Monday that recently reinvigorated
ties with Cyprus will continue under newly elected president Nicos Anastasiades,
who handily won Cyprus’s runoff election on Sunday.
Anastasiades, a
center-right candidate who defeated a left-wing contender, is considered “very
friendly” toward Israel and made a rare visit here in January 2012 as head of
the opposition.
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