Jeremy Issacharoff (; born 1955 in

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who served as Israel’s Ambassador to Germany from 2017 to 2021, succeeding Yakov Hadas-Handelsman. Before that, he was Vice Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served as deputy director general for strategic affairs and as such, has had the opportunity to be involved in various issues relating to

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. While he was the third highest ranking official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington in 1994, he was the first Israeli to have official contact with the

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. In 2020, Issacharoff spoke out about anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks in Halle and

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, saying "No democratic society can survive if minorities are constantly threatened or harmed. ... The Holocaust has shown us all where such hatred leads." He has also criticized

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for his public endorsement of the far-right

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(AfD) party writing “It is hard to believe how the person who captured Eichmann … is able to praise German right-wingers who so admire the Nazi past and wish on us that they become the alternative of Europe! Sad and shameful.”

Life

Since 1982, Issacharoff has worked for Israeli government. From 1993 to 1998 and again from 2005 to 2009 Issacharoff worked as diplomat in

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In 2005, while Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington, he was given the rank of Senior Ambassador. He was offered an ambassadorship to India but turned it down due to an illness in the family. Born in London in 1955, Issacharoff graduated from the

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with a LLB. Issacharaoff is married and has three children. In March 2020, Issacharoff tested positive for

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.B.Z. Berlin: Botschafter von Israel mit Coronavirus infiziert (german)
March 17, 2020

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Embassy of Israel, Berlin: Jeremy IssacharoffGermany vows to back Israel at UN, in apparent break from past record Israel’s envoy to Berlin welcomes statement as ‘clear signal’ of country’s determination to enhance Jerusalem’s standing in international fora
{{Authority control 1955 births Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics 20th-century British Jews 21st-century British Jews British emigrants to Israel Ambassadors of Israel to Germany Bukharan Jews