1. Daniel Taub is an Israeli diplomat, international lawyer and writer of British origin who served as Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2015.
11 Facts About Daniel Taub
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Daniel Taub served as director of strategy and planning at the Yad Hanadiv Foundation in Jerusalem from 2015 to 2021.
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Daniel Taub attended secondary school at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, Hertfordshire, and thereafter studied at University College, Oxford, University College, London and Harvard University.
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Daniel Taub served as a combat medic in the Israel Defense Forces, and subsequently as a reserve officer in the IDF Military Advocate General Office's international law division.
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Daniel Taub has held many diplomatic, legal and political posts in the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
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Daniel Taub is an expert in international law, with specialisations in counter-terrorism and the laws of war.
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Daniel Taub was a negotiator in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and a member of Israel's negotiation team in the Israel-Syrian negotiations.
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Daniel Taub headed Israel's observer delegation to the International Court of Justice hearings on Israel's security barrier, represented Israel before the UN investigative committee on the Gaza flotilla incident, and negotiated the entry of Israel's Red Cross society, Magen David Adom, into the International Red Cross Movement, after 70 years of exclusion.
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Daniel Taub has been interviewed widely on television including on Hardtalk, CNN, Newsnight, Sky News, and the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, and was the first Israeli ambassador to be interviewed on the BBC Persian service.
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Daniel Taub returned to Israel when his appointment as ambassador ended in 2015.
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Daniel Taub has written articles on Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish World.