Tag: Ambassador

The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Jacob (“Jack”) Lew on Tuesday to serve as the next American ambassador to Israel. The final vote tally was 53-43, with several Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken referred to Ambassador David Satterfield on Oct. 3 as “a longtime colleague” and “extraordinary Foreign Service officer,” speaking during an event at Rice University in Houston, where Satterfield was then...

Israel has completed the purchase of an official residence for its ambassador in Washington. Michael Herzog will be moving into an 11-bedroom, 12-bathroom home with a listing price of $10 million, Jewish Insider reported on Thursday. It is...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog received on Monday the credentials of the new ambassadors from Moldova, Ghana, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Mongolia and, for the first time ever, Palau, in a series of ceremonies at his...

Israel and Israel alone can make decisions fateful to its future, and it can start with reaching clarity about its eastern border, said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the second Israeli...

In the decade that separates the two books that former ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon has written, a lot has transpired. Having served as a member...

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky returned this week to Kyiv, raising the Jewish state’s flag on a pole just outside the embassy building on Tuesday. “­Good to be back,” he posted on Twitter along with a...

Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.* Yes, it will need to come with an asterisk of sorts, according to the United Nations, but even that can be seen as a hard-fought win for...

Domestic critics of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he has lost focus on internal political considerations while taking on more international concerns, such as trying to intervene diplomatically in Russia’s nearly seven-week war...

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan hosted an early Passover seder on Wednesday at the United Nations. About 50 ambassadors from countries all around the world, including the United States, Ukraine, Japan, Mexico,...