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The US embassy in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 25, 2026, 4:28 pm
US said returning diplomats to Mideast, signaling fresh Iran hostilities not imminent
Redeployments of staffers evacuated during recent conflict could begin this week, with embassies in Israel, Jordan and Oman set to return to full staffing despite stalled talks
By ToI Staff
Former UK ambassador and diplomatic veteran Edmund Fitton-Brown. (Courtesy)
July 17, 2026, 5:39 am
Former UK diplomat: Foreign Office has lost its ability to discern friends from enemies
Edmund Fitton-Brown, who for decades served as envoy to Gulf nations, believes Islamic extremism is poisoning his country’s diplomatic well. Can a Burnham government bring new hope?
By Robert Philpot
A man repeatedly stabs an Israeli diplomat in Beijing, China, October 13, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 13, 2023, 4:18 pm
Israeli diplomat repeatedly stabbed by assailant in Beijing
Incident, still under investigation, occurs after Hamas declares ‘day of rage,’ encouraging supporters to attack Israelis and Jews; US envoy to China expresses support for Israel
By Agencies
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a Knesset committee hearing, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2023, 5:37 pm
Ministers advance bill demanding loyalty pledge from senior diplomats serving abroad
If draft bill is approved by Knesset, new ambassadors and consuls general will be compelled to swear allegiance to Israel as Jewish, democratic state
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Portrait of Sir Horace Phillips. (Courtesy of the British Foreign Office)
May 20, 2023, 8:59 am
UK posthumously honors Jewish diplomat blocked by Saudis in 1968 for being a Jew
19 years after his death, the British Foreign Office dedicates the ‘Phillips Room’ to Sir Horace Phillips, who overcame socioeconomic hurdles to become a long-serving ambassador
By Robert Philpot
Israel's Embassy to the United States in Washington, DC, file photo (CC-BY-SA Krokodyl/Wikimedia Commons)
February 22, 2023, 11:33 am
Israeli diplomats in North America say lack of funds severely hampering their work
In letter, mission chiefs in US and Canada warn budget shortfall comes as ‘relations are on the verge of collapse with a large part of lawmakers and the Jewish communities’
By ToI Staff
Ho Feng-Shan poses for a photo taken while he was a Chinese consul in Egypt. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images/ via JTA)
February 20, 2023, 4:45 pm
Historical fiction novel about real-life Chinese rescuer of Jews sparks controversy
The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in ‘Night Angels’
By Jordyn Haime
Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek speaks to Azeri media in a residential neighborhood of the city of Ganja after it was hit by Armenian missiles, October 2020. (Courtesy of Israeli Embassy in Baku)
January 13, 2023, 9:45 am
For Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Iranian death threats are all in a day’s work
When he began in 2019, George Deek was the first Christian Arab to represent the Jewish state. Now his host country will be the first Shi’ite state to open an embassy in Israel
By Robert Sarner
Ambassador Ran Yaakoby casts a vote in Wellington, New Zealand on October 20, 2022. (Foreign Ministry)
October 20, 2022, 5:12 am
Ambassador to New Zealand kicks off voting for 25th Knesset
Ran Yaakoby repeats wish that this will be the last time he is the first to cast a ballot as Israel heads back to the polls for the fifth time in four years
By ToI Staff
Using an expired Spanish law that extended citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, Ángel Sanz-Briz saved 5,200 Hungarian Jews from being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. (Centro Serafad-Israel/ via JTA)
October 16, 2021, 8:28 am
Spain wants to find descendants of 5,200 Jews saved by the ‘Spanish Schindler’
Ángel Sanz Briz saved 5,200 Jewish Hungarians by issuing fake passports and buying 11 apartment buildings as safe havens, but the anti-Israel Franco regime stifled his legacy
By Orge Castellano
Illustrative: A worker at the Teva Pharmaceuticals logistics center in Shoham, where coronavirus vaccines are stored, on January 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)
March 14, 2021, 8:52 pm
Israel to ship COVID vaccines to US for diplomatic staff
Pfizer shots will be sent to New York, where emissaries and their families will be vaccinated; another shipment already planned for second doses
By ToI Staff
Ran Yaakoby, Israel's ambassador to New Zealand casting his ballot as early voting opened for diplomats in the coming elections, March 10, 2021 (Foreign Ministry)
March 10, 2021, 11:12 pm
Israel’s ambassador in New Zealand casts the first vote of the elections
Ran Yaakoby kicks off March 23 elections in Wellington; ballots boxes to be set up in four new diplomatic outposts: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Rabat and Manama
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Al Arz Tahini is a great choice for Ilana Muhlstein’s sweet Purim sauce. (Courtesy)
July 24, 2020, 9:47 am
Israeli diplomats buy tahini boycotted over LGBT support
Dozens of officials purchase more than 600 pounds of Al Arz paste to support Arab Israeli businesswoman
By Marcy Oster
Russian police guard in front of the Israeli embassy in Moscow on September 18, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV)
March 26, 2020, 4:02 pm
Israel evacuates families of diplomats from Russia, African countries
Foreign Ministry says only those who want to come are being brought home; diplomats themselves are staying; report says Spain may be next
By ToI Staff
Itzhak Gerberg, Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand casts his vote on February 19, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand (Israel Foreign Ministry)
February 18, 2020, 10:44 pm
Israeli diplomats and emissaries worldwide kick off March elections
Some 5,200 Israelis stationed abroad begin casting ballots; first to vote in country’s third election in a year is Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand
By Raoul Wootliff
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