Yechiel Leiter, former advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, has been appointed Israeli ambassador to the United States. This decision was ratified by the government on Sunday November 24.
The appointment of Yechiel Leiter as ambassador to the United States was ratified on Sunday, November 24, by the Israeli government. “The government unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. Yechiel Leiter as ambassador to the United States”said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release, reports Le Figaro. He succeeds Mike Herzog, brother of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who was appointed in 2021.
Yechiel Leiter, 65, close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of whom he is a former advisor, is of American origin and lives in a colony in the occupied West Bank. In the 1990s, he was one of the leaders of the Yesha Council, one of the main Israeli settler organizations. Within Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu's party, he is currently a strategy advisor. His son, Moshe Leiter, an IDF officer, was killed in November 2023 in the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army has been at war against Hamas since the October 7 attack.
Very critical of Joe Biden
Yechiel Leiter must take office in Washington after the inauguration of Donald Trump next January. Very critical of the policies of the Joe Biden administration, he denounced, last January, on the private internet channel Tov the “American pressures” regarding the conduct of the war in Gaza by the State of Israel. For his part, Donald Trump recently announced his intention to appoint Mike Huckabee, an evangelist Christian pastor, as United States ambassador to Israel.
Defender of colonization, Mike Huckabee told CNN in 2017: “the occupied West Bank does not exist. There is Judea and Samaria”. This is the biblical name for this region that Israelis use to designate the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by Israel.
published on November 24 at 3:34 p.m., Lilian Moy, 6Medias
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