Daniel Taub
| Daniel Taub | |
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| דניאל טאוב | |
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| Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office June 2011 – September 2015 |
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| President |
Shimon Peres Reuven Rivlin |
| Prime Minister | Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Preceded by | Ron Prosor |
| Succeeded by | Mark Regev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 (age 54–55) United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Alma mater |
University College, Oxford University College London Harvard University |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Israel
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| Service/branch | Israel Defense Forces |
Daniel Taub (Hebrew: דניאל טאוב; born 1962) 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. He is director of strategy and planning at the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) Foundation in Jerusalem.
Daniel Taub was born and raised in the United Kingdom. He 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. Taub moved to Israel in 1989. He served as a combat medic in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and subsequently as a reserve officer in the IDF's international law division. Soon after arriving in Israel, Taub worked as speechwriter for President Chaim Herzog. He joined the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1991.
Taub and his wife Zehava have six children, who performed a song together at a party in honour of Israel's 64th birthday.
Taub has held many diplomatic, legal and political posts in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. He is an expert in international law, with specialisations in counter-terrorism and the laws of war. As Principal Deputy Legal Advisor of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taub served as legal adviser to Israel's missions to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, and represented Israel in many multilateral fora.
Taub was extensively involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, helping negotiate many of the agreements reached between the two sides, and heading the Israeli side of the Culture of Peace track of negotiations, travelling with his Palestinian counterpart to Northern Ireland to learn from the experience there. He was also a member of Israel's negotiation team in the Israel-Syrian negotiations. He 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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