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Trump formally nominates Mike Huckabee as next US ambassador to Israel

By Jacob Magid 13 February 2025, 2:41 am
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Then-Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during a roundtable at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Then-Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during a roundtable at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US President Donald Trump has formally submitted his nomination of Mike Huckabee to become the next US ambassador to Israel.

Huckabee’s is one of several dozen nominations Trump has submitted to the Senate this evening.

Confirmation hearings are expected to span the coming weeks and months.

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