Prime Minister's Office senior adviser Mark Regev (Screen capture YouTube)
The Foreign Ministry on Monday officially approved the appointment of the prime minister’s foreign press spokesman Mark Regev as ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Regev, who has long served as the face of the Israeli government in international press interviews during conflict, had been tapped for the position earlier this month.
Melbourne-born Regev defended Israel’s position during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and during the IDF’s Gaza campaigns in 2008, 2012 and 2014.
Regev joined the Foreign Ministry in 1990, and formerly served as spokesman for the Israeli embassies in Washington and Beijing. In 2004, he became the Foreign Ministry spokesman, a position he held until 2007. Regev then moved to the Prime Minister’s Office, under then-premier Ehud Olmert.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub addresses a Zionist Federation event in London, March 2013 (photo credit: Courtesy Zionist Federation)
Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, vacated the position in July. British-born and educated, Taub assumed office in 2011.
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In other recent ambassadorial appointments, Dani Dayan, former head of the Yesha Council of settlements, was announced as the next ambassador to Brazil. Dayan was born in Argentina. Fiamma Nirenstein, an Italian journalist and former MP who immigrated to Israel two years ago, was named by the prime minister as the next ambassador to Rome.
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