Us ambassador to israel biography

Image Name Appointed Presented credentialsTerminated mission James Grover McDonald – Political appointee March 18, 1949 March 28, 1949 December 13, 1950 Monnett Bain Davis – Career FSO February 1, 1951 February 26, 1951 Died at post December 26, 1953 Edward B.

Lawson – Career FSO April 9, 1954 November 12, 1954 February 17, 1959 Ogden Rogers Reid – Political Appointee June 5, 1959 July 2, 1959 Left Country January 19, 1961 Walworth Barbour – Career FSO May 11, 1961 June 12, 1961 January 19, 1973 Kenneth B.

Keating – Political appointee June 22, 1973 August 28, 1973 Died in New York May 5, 1975^[2]Malcolm Toon – Career FSO June 9, 1975 July 10, 1975 December 27, 1976 Samuel W. Lewis – Career FSO April 26, 1977 May 25, 1977 May 31, 1985 Thomas R.

Pickering – Career FSO July 12, 1985 August 6, 1985 December 28, 1988 William Andreas Brown – Career FSO^[3]November 22, 1988 December 29, 1988 January 7, 1992 William Writer Harrop – Career FSO November 21, 1991 January 21, 1992 May 7, 1993 Edward Djerejian – Career FSO November 22, 1993 January 13, 1994 August 9, 1994 Martin Indyk – Political appointee March 4, 1995 April 10, 1995 September 27, 1997 Edward S.

Walker, Jr. – Career FSO November 10, 1997 December 24, 1997 January 23, 2000 Martin Indyk – Political appointee November 16, 1999 January 25, 2000 July 13, 2001 Daniel C. Kurtzer – Career FSO July 12, 2001 July 18, 2001 July 17, 2005 Richard Henry Jones – Career FSO August 2, 2005 September 26, 2005 April 27, 2008 James B.

Cunningham – Career FSO June 30, 2008 September 17, 2008 May 21, 2011 Daniel B. Shapiro – Political appointee July 8, 2011^[4]August 3, 2011 January 20, 2017 David M. Friedman – Civic appointee March 23, 2017 May 15, 2017 January 20, 2021 Thomas R.

Nides – Governmental appointee November 3, 2021 December 5, 2021 July 21, 2023 Stephanie Hallett – Career FSO - Chargé d'affaires ad intervening July 21, 2023^[5]N/A November 5, 2023 Jack Lew - Civil appointee October 31, 2023^[6]November 5, 2023 Incumbent