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Daniela Grudsky Ekstein, the Chargé d'affaires at the Israeli Embassy, speaks at FCDO event

May 26, 2026, 9:40 pm

Israel’s diplomatic vacuum in Britain could not have come at a worse time

Jerusalem has effectively left the post of ambassador to the UK vacant for more than eight months, with Netanyahu's pick facing severe accusations regarding his conduct

By Daniel Sugarman

Eitan Naeh (Credit: Twitter/@IsraelinUK)

January 19, 2026, 1:02 pm

Israeli former Deputy Head of Mission to the UK dies suddenly at 62

Eitan Naeh went on to serve as Israel's ambassador to Turkey and then, in the wake of the Abraham Accords, Bahrain

By JN Reporter

January 14, 2026, 10:37 am

Israel’s next UK ambassador barred from leaving country over leak probe

Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, has rejected calls to suspend Tzachi Braverman’s appointment to London

By Lee Harpin

January 13, 2026, 5:53 pm

Iranian ambassador summoned amid new UK sanction on Tehran

Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran's ambassador to the UK, was seen arriving at the Foreign Office

By Lee Harpin

August 27, 2025, 10:02 am

Leading TV and film executive Leo Pearlman to become Jewish News ambassador

The co-chief executive of Fulwell Entertainment joins ITV political editor Robert who became JN's first ambassador earlier this year

By Justin Cohen

Attorney General Lord Hermer KC with Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely

May 21, 2025, 11:27 am

Israeli ambassador told UK will not ‘stand by’ amid Gaza military escalation

Jewish News understands government discussing further sanctions against Israeli ministers

By Lee Harpin

May 19, 2025, 4:12 pm

Badenoch: My party is ‘last line of defence’ for Israel in Parliament

Conservative leader tells CFI lunch the idea 'Jews are not entitled to a homeland is antisemitic'

By Lee Harpin

January 7, 2025, 11:48 am

Two names emerge as potential successors to Hotovely

Current Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely completes her five year long stint in the UK in August

By Lee Harpin

left to right; Maureen Phillips, Sir Horace Phillips’ daughter; Sir Philip Barton, Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCDO; Sophie Ross, co-Chair of the Horace Society; Laura Popoviciu, Government Art Collections

April 19, 2023, 9:56 am

First Jewish career ambassador honoured with a room in his name at Foreign Office

Sir Horace Phillips died in 2004 after an extraordinary career in the Middle East

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 14, 2023, 12:23 pm

INTERVIEW: Meet Melinda Simmons, Dame of Ukraine

The title may be new, but the dogged determination is the same. The British ambassador in Kyiv talks exclusively to Jewish News

By Jenni Frazer and Lee Harpin

Protests outside Tzipi Hotovely's North London residence

March 27, 2023, 1:02 am

Anti-Netanyahu demo staged outside Israeli ambassador to UK’s north London residence

Around 300 mainly Israeli protesters arrived outside Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely's north London residence in a spontaneous demo as further chaos erupted in Israel on Sunday evening

By Lee Harpin

British and Israeli participants at the inaugural Veterans Games.

November 24, 2022, 10:56 am

Veteran Games in Israel gave me my life back, says former British soldier

Israeli ambassador hails event bringing together injured Israeli and British service personnel at official launch of 2023 event.

By Justin Cohen

Tzipi Hotovely being bundled into a car and driven away from LSE event as protesters swarm car 2021 Screenshot Twitter)

October 13, 2022, 12:01 pm

Anti-Israel abuse at UK universities impacting on free speech, report claims

New report by Higher Education Policy Institute thinktank claims uni debates have been cancelled over fears of a repeat of the scenes that greeted Israeli ambassador to the UK when she took part in debate at the LSE

By Lee Harpin

Melinda Simmons speaks to Deputies at the March 2022 meeting chaired by Marie van der Zyl

March 20, 2022, 11:40 pm

Ukrainians fighting for ‘values we as Jews share’, says envoy

Melinda Simmons, UK ambassador to Ukraine, spoke to the Board of Deputies, and said she believes Putin thought 'an invasion would probably not last longer than 48 hours to a week'

By Lee Harpin

March 7, 2022, 4:28 pm

UK ambassador to Ukraine evacuated

Melinda Simmons had moved to Lviv from Kyiv but has now been taken out of the country due to the 'serious security situation'

By Lee Harpin

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