Daniel Taub

Daniel Taub is an Israeli diplomat and international lawyer. He served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 until 2015 and is currently director of strategy and planning of the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) foundation. He was a member of Israel’s negotiation teams in the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and has taught negotiation theory and mediation in foreign ministries and universities around the world. Daniel is the author of Parasha Diplomatit (2007), a book of diplomatic insights on biblical texts, and created and wrote a popular Israeli drama series, Ha-Chatzer (2003), set in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic sect. Daniel holds degrees from the universities of Oxford, London, and Harvard. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Zehava and their six children.