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Save the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

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March 26, 2014

Last week, Tel Aviv University took political science students – including me – on a field trip to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, in order for us to examine the various possible career paths there. Since high school, it has been very clear to me that my future would be in diplomacy. I saw myself bringing Israel to the outside world, living in the beating heart of foreign affairs. I saw diplomacy as a major contribution to today’s global Village, and I still do. Only now, unfortunately, I don’t see myself as part of this world anymore.


Over the past year and a half, the employees of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been protesting  its lack of funding. They are currently in a feud with the Finance Ministry, which, every year, decrease its support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, relying more and more on pro-Israeli organizations to do the work for them. In the meantime, Israeli diplomats receive disgraceful salaries (one even posted his paycheck on Facebook: 6,800 NIS (about 1900 dollars) per month to an employee with an academic degree and 13 years seniority,) and suffer from lack of funding for their various activities around the world and in Israel (in May, the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs

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