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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC.

New US envoy Huckabee celebrates move to Israel with social media post

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC.

US Senate confirms staunch pro-Israel conservative Huckabee as Israel ambassador

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Then-US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks before unveiling a plaque at the US embassy in Jerusalem, December 21, 2020.

Trump considers former ambassadors Friedman, Grenell for UN role

US Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), nominated by president-elect Donald Trump as US ambassador to the UN, speaks during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing titled ‘Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,’ on Capitol Hill last year.

Trump withdraws Stefanik nomination's for United Nations ambassador

By REUTERS

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC.

OU Advocacy urges Senate to confirm Huckabee as ambassador to Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Dorothy Camille Shea, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, US, March 18, 2025.

US says Hamas solely to blame for resumption of Gaza hostilities

By REUTERS

US AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE to Israel Mike Huckabee attends a ceremony in 2018 marking the construction of a new housing complex in Efrat.

Evangelical leader urges senators to confirm Huckabee as ambassador to Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Tom Rose

Trump names former 'Post' publisher Tom Rose US ambassador to Poland

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

AMERICAN AND ISRAELI flags fly during a demonstration in support of Israel at the US Capitol in 2002.

Stakes for Israel’s new ambassador to US have rarely been higher

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Yechiel Leiter holds a photo of his heroic son Moshe Yedidya

New Israeli US envoy: 'I’ll speak in every synagogue, regardless of denomination'

By ZVIKA KLEIN , AMICHAI STEIN

“Israel isn’t just a point on the map. It’s a promise.” Mike Huckabee speaks on stage with then Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump, in Pennsylvania.

Editor's Notes: Mike Huckabee’s appointment signals evangelical shift in Israel-US diplomacy

FORMER ISRAELI ambassador to the US Ron Dermer attends a special 2022 session of the Knesset. Dermer famously stated that it was better to cultivate Evangelicals than Jews because they are more numerous and they criticize Israel less, the writer points out.

An open letter to Israel’s new ambassador to the US

By TOVA HERZL

FORMER ARKANSAS governor and past US Republican presidential nomination candidate Mike Huckabee helps inaugurate a program to build more in Efrat, Gush Etzion, in 2018. Settler leaders tend to think the worst of the US and its presidents, argues the writer.

Trump announces former Gov. Mike Huckabee nominated as ambassador to Israel

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Gabriel Groisman (right) interviews incoming Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yehiel Leiter on his podcast, ‘Standpoint,’ late last month.

Why Yechiel Leiter is the right choice for Israel's US ambassador

By GABRIEL GROISMAN

Dr. Yechiel Leiter, Israel's Ambassador to the United States.

Netanyahu appoints Dr. Yechiel Leiter as Israel's next US Ambassador

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People waving Nazi swastika flags (illustrative)

US envoy Taylor says antisemitism is like a submerged submarine ready to rise

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Rabbi Dov Lando seen during a meeting to discuss the drafting of ultra-Orthodox jews to the IDF in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, April 5, 2024.

Biden administration praises Rabbi Lando's stance on Temple Mount amid controversy

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MARTIN INDYK speaks to the media as then-US secretary of state John Kerry looks on at the State Department, in 2013. Kerry had just named Indyk to serve as an envoy in Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Martin S. Indyk's diplomatic legacy: Lessons from Kissinger's Middle East strategy

By TED SASSON