{{Short description|Israeli diplomat}} thumb|Jonathan Peled '''Jonathan Peled''' ({{Langx|he|יונתן פלד}}) is an Israeli diplomat who is currently the Ambassador of Israel to Italy and San Marino<ref>https://embassies.gov.il/italy/en/the-embassy/the-ambassador</ref>. He served as the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico from July 2015 to 2019 (concurrent with Belize and the Bahamas).<ref name="Belize">{{cite web |title=Belize |url=https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Belize.aspx |website=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |access-date=11 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="Bahamas">{{cite web |title=The Bahamas |url=https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Bahamas-The.aspx |website=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |accessdate=19 May 2020}}</ref> As a diplomat, he has also served as the Ambassador of Israel to El Salvador (2004 - 2006), as Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel and as Spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.<ref name="Mexico">{{cite web |title=Mexico |url=https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Mexico.aspx |website=Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs |access-date=11 December 2020}}</ref>
==Early life== Peled was born in Jerusalem and grew up at Kibbutz Neot Mordechai. He studied Political Science and Economics at Tel Aviv University.<ref name="Mexico" />
Peled has one sibling and three children.
==Mexico== Shortly after Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, it was reported that Peled would be called in for a meeting with Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso where he was “expected to receive an angry telling-off after Netanyahu tweeted that Trump’s border wall was a ‘great idea,’ comparing it to the wall on Israel's southern border.”<ref name="TOI">{{cite news |title=Israel's ambassador to Mexico faces rebuke after PM's wall comments |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-ambassador-to-mexico-berated-after-pms-comments/ |access-date=11 December 2020 |publisher=The Times of Israel |date=January 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="SDUT">{{cite news |title=Israel seeks to mend fences with Mexico after Netanyahu tweet |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/en-espanol/sdhoy-israel-seeks-to-mend-fences-with-mexico-after-netanyahu-tweet-20170130-story.html |access-date=11 December 2020 |date=January 30, 2017 |ref=The San Diego Union-Trubune}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peled, Jonathan}} Category:Ambassadors of Israel to Belize Category:Ambassadors of Israel to El Salvador Category:Ambassadors of Israel to Mexico Category:Ambassadors of Israel to the Bahamas Category:Tel Aviv University alumni Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people
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