Netanyahu Tapped a Far Right Settler to Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the US

Last month, immediately following the U.S. elections, Benjamin Netanyahu made a new appointment to the role of Israel’s ambassador to the U.S.: Yechiel Leiter. The move was not required, Michael Herzog’s term, the current ambassador, was not over for another year. The move was clearly made to dovetail with President-elect Trump entering office. The name Yechiel Leiter is not very…

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