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Hélène Le Gal

French Ambassador to Israel Eric Danon in 2019 (Courtesy Foreign Ministry)
May 27, 2021, 4:46 pm
Israel dresses down French envoy for FM’s ‘Israel at risk of apartheid’ warning
FM Ashkenazi tells ambassador that comment by Le Drian was ‘far from reality’ and a prize to terrorists; says Israel expects its friends not to drive anti-Israel activities
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Helene Le Gal during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
April 30, 2019, 1:16 pm
Israel rebukes French envoy over colleague’s ‘apartheid’ accusation
Hélène Le Gal summoned to Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem over statement by Paris’s outgoing Washington ambassador; Gérard Araud says he was referring to the West Bank only
By Raphael Ahren
Kulanu MK Michael Oren, on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 28, 2018, 4:55 pm
Deputy minister, French envoy spar over Macron’s comment on Pittsburgh attack
Michael Oren charges that French president failed to acknowledge anti-Semitism in synagogue shooting — 12 hours after Macron denounced exactly that
By ToI Staff
Helene Le Gal during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
June 2, 2018, 5:31 pm
Michael Oren, French envoy in Twitter spat over UN Gaza vote
Deputy minister accuses Paris of hypocrisy by supporting ‘anti-Semitic resolution’; French envoy questions whether Oren even read it and says he ‘insulted France’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Helene Le Gal during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
April 28, 2018, 7:50 pm
French envoy to Israel: ‘Possibility of war’ if Iran nuke deal collapses
Ambassador Hélène Le Gal warns that if US pulls out of deal, as Trump has threatened, Tehran will do so too, escalating tensions
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Participants take part in the Mud Day race, a 13km obstacle course, on March 24, 2017 in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)
March 24, 2017, 6:29 pm
Thousands of Israelis get filthy for ‘Mud Day’
Challenge includes swinging between ropes, climbing up muddy hills and crawling through icy water
By AFP
Helene Le Gal during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
February 8, 2017, 10:25 am
Outpost law damaging Israel’s credibility, French envoy charges
Echoing Paris’ condemnation, Hélène Le Gal says contentious legislation amounts to a unilateral move that distances two-state solution
By ToI Staff
Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 8, 2017, 10:02 pm
US, EU lead international condemnation of Jerusalem attack
France ‘places itself on Israel’s side in its fight against terrorism,’ says FM, as local envoys, governments slam truck-ramming terror attack
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 8, 2017, 3:25 pm
Foreign officials express horror, condemn Jerusalem terror attack
UN special envoy to the peace process says there are ‘absolutely no excuses’ for vehicular attack that killed 4, ‘must be condemned by all’
By Raphael Ahren
French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)
December 22, 2016, 7:45 pm
France: Israeli-Palestinian peace summit set for January 15
Neither Israel nor the Palestinians will be at meeting, but Paris will brief Netanyahu, Abbas afterwards; 70 countries to attend
By ToI Staff and AFP
Incoming French ambassador to Israel Helene Le Gal with President Reuven Rivlin during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
December 22, 2016, 12:15 pm
French envoy indicates Paris to back anti-settlement UN motion
Draft to be voted on Thursday night ‘balanced’ and ‘very close to what we’ve been saying publicly,’ says Ambassador Hélène Le Gal
By Raphael Ahren
French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)
December 17, 2016, 5:30 pm
France confirms Paris peace summit delayed until January
French envoy to UN says ‘conditions not in place today to restart negotiations’ between Israel, Palestinians
By ToI Staff
French President Francois Hollande, right, welcomes Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on his arrival on July 21, 2016 at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris. (AFP File Photo/ Pool/ Stephane de Sakutin)
December 13, 2016, 10:23 pm
Paris peace summit delayed until January — report
Palestinian envoy in France reportedly says decision to postpone confab unrelated to Israel’s refusal to attend
By ToI Staff
Incoming French ambassador to Israel Helene Le Gal with President Reuven Rivlin during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
December 12, 2016, 11:16 am
New French ambassador: Paris peace summit won’t have fresh ideas
Presenting credentials, Hélène Le Gal says conference rejected by Israel aims to ensure peace process with Palestinians doesn’t fall by wayside
By Raphael Ahren
Kulanu MK Michael Oren shows a 'Made in Europe' label he prepared a few weeks earlier, in response to the European decision to label products made in territories Israel captured in the Six Day War in 1967. (Courtesy Michael Oren)
November 28, 2016, 9:54 am
Michael Oren seems to urge boycott of French products, drawing ambassador’s ire
Deputy minister’s call to ‘think twice’ before purchasing goods from France follows Paris’s decision to label settlement goods
By Raphael Ahren
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