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Israel

Name: James Grover McDonald
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 18, 1949
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 28, 1949
Termination of Mission: Left post, Dec 13, 1950

Name: Monnett B. Davis
State of Residency: Colorado
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 1, 1951
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 26, 1951
Termination of Mission: Died at post, Dec 26, 1953

Name: Edward B. Lawson
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 9, 1954
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 12, 1954
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 17, 1959

Name: Ogden Rogers Reid
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 5, 1959
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 2, 1959
Termination of Mission: Left Israel, Jan 19, 1961

Name: Walworth Barbour
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 11, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 12, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jan 19, 1973

Name: Kenneth B. Keating
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 22, 1973
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 28, 1973
Termination of Mission: Died in New York, May 5, 1975
Note: Ambassador Keating had departed Tel Aviv on Mar 31, 1975 for consultations on the reassessment of American policy in the Middle East.

Name: Malcolm Toon
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 9, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 10, 1975
Termination of Mission: Left post, Dec 27, 1976

Name: Samuel L. Lewis
State of Residency: Texas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 26, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: May 25, 1977
Termination of Mission: May 31, 1985

Name: Thomas R. Pickering
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 12, 1985
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 6, 1985
Termination of Mission: Left post, Dec 28, 1988

Name: William Andreas Brown
State of Residency: New Hampshire
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 22, 1988
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 29, 1988
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jan 7, 1992
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; nomination of May 24, 1988 was not acted upon by the Senate. Recommissioned Oct 2, 1989 after confirmation.

Name: William Caldwell Harrop
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 21, 1991
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 21, 1992
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 7, 1993

Name: Edward P. Djerejian
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 22, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 13, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 9, 1994

Name: Martin S. Indyk
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 4, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 10, 1995
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 27, 1997

Name: Edward S. Walker, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 10, 1997
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 24, 1997
Termination of Mission: Left post Jan 23, 2000

Name: Martin S. Indyk
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 16, 1999
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 25, 2000
Termination of Mission: Left post July 13, 2001

Name: Daniel C. Kurtzer
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 12, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 18, 2001
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 17, 2005

Name: Richard Henry Jones
State of Residency: Nebraska
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 2, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 26, 2005
Termination of Mission:


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