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Chiefs of Mission for Israel
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Chiefs of Mission
- James Grover McDonald (1886–1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 28, 1949–December 13, 1950
- Monnett Bain Davis (1893–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 26, 1951–December 26, 1953
- Edward Burnett Lawson (1895–1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 12, 1954–February 17, 1959
- Ogden Rogers Reid (1925–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 2, 1959–January 19, 1961
- Walworth Barbour (1908–1982)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 12, 1961–January 19, 1973
- Kenneth Barnard Keating (1900–1975)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 28, 1973–May 5, 1975
- Malcolm Toon (1916–2009)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 10, 1975–December 27, 1976
- Samuel Winfield Lewis (1930–2014)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 25, 1977–May 31, 1985
- Thomas Reeve Pickering (1931–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 6, 1985–December 28, 1988
- William Andreas Brown (1930–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 29, 1988–January 7, 1992
- William Caldwell Harrop (1929–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 21, 1992–May 7, 1993
- Edward Peter Djerejian (1939–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 13, 1994–August 9, 1994
- Martin S. Indyk (1951–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 10, 1995–September 27, 1997
- Edward S. Walker Jr. (1940–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 24, 1997–January 23, 2000
- Martin S. Indyk (1951–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 25, 2000–July 13, 2001
- Daniel Charles Kurtzer (1949–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 18, 2001–September 15, 2005
- Richard Henry Jones (1950–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 26, 2005–April 27, 2008
- James B. Cunningham (1952–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 17, 2008–May 21, 2011
- Daniel B. Shapiro (1969–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 3, 2011–January 20, 2017
- David M. Friedman (?–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 16, 2017–
Other Nominees
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