Criticized by some in Israel because she is a political outsider, Gabriela Shalev, Israel\’s incoming U.N. ambassador, wins the praise of past and current colleagues who say she is an exceptional legal mind with an unflappable exterior
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni nominated Sallai Meridor on Oct. 4 to be Israel\’s next ambassador to Washington.
One of the terrorists in the July 7 London transit-system bombings reportedly knew one of the bombers in a 2003 Tel Aviv terrorist attack.
The mid-August Israeli pullout from Gaza is fraught with risks and unknowns, but the Israeli government remains committed to \”unilateral disengagement,\” says Daniel Ayalon, Israel\’s ambassador to the United States.
András Simonyi, Hungary\’s ambassador to the United States, made his first visit to the Museum of Tolerance Feb. 11 to plan a spring memorial marking this year\’s 60th anniversary of the Nazi deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944.
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