Israel to name Michael Herzog, the president’s brother and a longtime adviser to peace negotiators, as US ambassador Herzog works for a Washington think tank that has close ties with Republican and Democratic administrations as well as successive Israeli governments.
Netanyahu names one person to serve simultaneously as Israel’s Washington and UN ambassador Gilad Erdan, now the public security minister, will drop the D.C. role once Benny Gantz takes over as prime minister in 18 months,
Israel’s ambassador to US, Ron Dermer, to complete tenure at end of September He will be forced to resign after Israel’s Civil Service Commission refused to extend his term of office by a year, as requested by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
