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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

Foreign Ministry employees

Illustrative: The pro-Israel rally on July 31, 2014 took place outside Paris's Israeli embassy. (Glenn Cloarec/The Times of Israel)
June 16, 2023, 10:43 am
Foreign Ministry investigating Paris deputy ambassador for anti-government activity
Report says Ronit Ben Dor has been using her official social media accounts to protest the current coalition, despite requirement that ministry workers remain apolitical
By ToI Staff
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
Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover. April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
May 26, 2022, 12:29 pm
Amid wage dispute, Israelis abroad increasingly unable to get replacement passports
Many consular services have run out of passports; Foreign Ministry workers refuse to send refills due to conflict over salaries
By Michael Horovitz
Simona Halperin, acting Israeli ambassador to Ukraine, at the embassy's mission in Przemyśl, Poland, March 14, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)
March 15, 2022, 4:02 pm
Mission possible for Israel’s relocated Ukraine embassy, despite car crash, COVID
Diplomats at the embassy’s HQ, now based in Poland near the border, describe the slowing stream of exiting Israelis and the growing demand for any other help they can provide
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. (Niv Musman/GPO)
March 11, 2022, 12:06 pm
Lapid to travel to Romania, Slovakia for Ukraine talks, visit border rescue efforts
Foreign minister to meet leaders of two nations, visit Israeli Foreign Ministry officials working to rescue Israelis, Jewish Ukrainians, and other refugees
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on November 15, 2021. (Asi Efrati/ GPO)
November 30, 2021, 4:26 pm
Foreign Ministry workers open labor dispute, putting official visits at risk
Ministry now has two weeks to negotiate before union takes action, says it is committed to improving conditions for diplomats, employees
By Lazar Berman
Foreign Ministry employees disrupt a meeting of the promotions committee as a committee member waits for them to leave, October 19, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 20, 2021, 2:28 am
Blasting obdurate Finance Ministry, diplomats launch fight for better conditions
Foreign Ministry workers disrupt committee meeting to demand new promotions policy, ask Lapid to take up their cause, warn embassies could be shut
By Lazar Berman
People gather outside the Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 25, 2021, 9:59 pm
Student employee of Foreign Ministry probed for suspected illegal visit to Iran
Suspect is a Jewish man in his 20s who reportedly visited the Islamic Republic for ‘adventure-seeking purposes,’ came into contact with Iranian agents
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
The gay pride flag displayed alongside the flag of the State of Israel and that of the Foreign Ministry, outside the Foreign Ministry building, in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Foreign Ministry)
June 21, 2021, 9:10 pm
Lapid orders pride flag displayed at Foreign Ministry, sparking ire on far-right
Foreign minister highlights ‘message of tolerance, unity and freedom’; Religious Zionism MKs call it a ‘cheap provocation’
By ToI Staff
Silvan Shalom (right) and Linor Itzkovich, who claims she was sexually assaulted by the former foreign minister. (Flash 90/Channel 12 screenshot)
May 26, 2021, 10:40 am
Woman publicly alleges sexual assault by former Likud minister Silvan Shalom
Linor Itzkovich, then his secretary, claims ex-politician forced himself upon her in his office, groped her on other occasions; he denies, says she has a history of ‘fabricating’
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 4, 2021, 10:41 pm
Israel flies in diplomats from UK for vaccinations; envoys elsewhere to follow
Staff will make trip again in three weeks for second dose
By Lazar Berman
People gather outside the Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 4, 2020, 4:14 pm
State comptroller says Israel’s foreign service badly underfunded, uncoordinated
In report, ombudsman list various government bodies that deal with same issues, often without communication; Foreign Ministry hails report as vindication of longstanding grievances
By Raphael Ahren
The 36th Foreign Ministry cadet's course, March 2020 (MFA)
March 15, 2020, 12:36 am
Entire Foreign Ministry cadet course in quarantine due to case of COVID-19
21 future diplomats and three instructors in self-isolation after cadet found infected with coronavirus
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 22, 2019, 1:37 am
Foreign Ministry workers scrap strike as deal signed with treasury
Employees had threatened to shut down missions all over the world in protest of cutbacks and taxation of a monthly expenses stipend
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on December 9, 2018. (Oded Balilty / POOL / AFP)
December 11, 2018, 7:27 am
‘We can’t work’: Israeli diplomats said to rap Netanyahu over budget cuts
PM reportedly promises to return funds to embattled Foreign Ministry, says he intends to appoint full-time minister
By Michael Bachner
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