Israel’s ambassador to London made headlines in British tabloids last week after exposing two undercover police officers who were having sexual relations behind a screen in a VIP lounge at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Ambassador Moshe Raviv had asked his bodyguards to remove the screen after he heard strange sounds coming from behind it.
He had suspected a terrorist attack.
But the sounds turned out to have been made by the amorous officers, whose inhibitions were loosened after they had helped themselves to libations at the lounge’s bar.
Raviv subsequently filed a complaint with the Airport Authority.
A spokesman at the Israeli Embassy in London would neither confirm nor deny the incident, saying only that Raviv had been in the airport last week.
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