Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday appointed former tourism minister Asaf Zamir as Israel’s new consul general in New York.
The position has been vacant since Dani Dayan ended his five-year term almost a year ago, with Israel Nitzan serving as acting consul general in the interim
Zamir, 40, who joined Blue and White in 2019, resigned from the government last October, saying he will no longer serve under then-prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Zamir lived in the US as a child for a few years and had US citizenship, which he had to renounce when he entered Israeli politics.
Prior to joining Blue and White, he served as deputy mayor of Tel Aviv from 2008 to 2018.
