British daily The Guardian has named Daniel Taub as the former Israeli envoy reported to have been refused an extension to his ambassadorship over unauthorized late night visitors to his official home.
Taub served as Israel’s most recent ambassador to the UK until June 2015.
According to Hebrew media reports, Taub had requested an extension to his four-year term as ambassador but was turned down by the Foreign Ministry after repeatedly breaking security protocol by accepting late-night visitors who had not passed the necessary security clearance.
Daniel Taub at a synagogue in Bradford, August 18, 2014. (Raine Marcus)
The Foreign Ministry, while not denying the reports, rejects rumors published online Tuesday that Taub was involved in an illicit scandal, insisting there had been “no criminal or disciplinary” wrongdoing, according to the Guardian.
An expert in international law, Taub had been a candidate for the position of the Foreign Ministry’s chief legal adviser. Haaretz reports that the committee responsible for high-level public service appointments this week blocked Taub’s candidacy based on the reported security breaches.
Discover Israel's most beloved poet
She died more than four decades ago, but Leah Goldberg remains a magnetic and enigmatic figure: Israel’s most beloved poet, a powerful woman who lived with her mother and never married, who reinvented herself from the ashes of World War I through her magical writing.
You can screen 'The Five Houses of Leah Goldberg' June 4-11. Join The Times of Israel Community today to support our work and watch this and other outstanding documentary films in our DocuNation series.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, February 4, 2016
