Changes in Israel's Foreign Ministry: What the New Deputy Minister Demands

Israel's new Deputy Foreign Minister, Michal Buskila, has ordered portraits of all her predecessors to be hung in her office. Sources in the ministry noted that this is one of her first directives. Buskila, appointed on July 16 after the resignation of Sharen Haskel, has not yet commented on the initiative.

Israel's new Deputy Foreign Minister, Michal Buskila (Yamin Mamlakhti), has instructed that portraits of all her predecessors be hung in her office. Sources in the Foreign Ministry, who spoke with a Ynet correspondent on Sunday, July 26, noted that this became one of Buskila's first directives in her new position. In Israeli ministries, it is customary to hang portraits of former heads of departments, but Buskila may be trying to enhance the prestige of her post, obtained in a transitional government for a few months. Buskila was appointed as Gideon Sa'ar's deputy on July 16, following the resignation of Sharen Haskel, who wrote an angry letter to the Foreign Minister and announced her departure from the Yamin Mamlakhti party. Ynet's editorial staff has been trying to get a comment from the deputy minister since July 24, but no response has been received. Buskila became a Knesset member in March 2022 and was one of the deputy speakers of the Knesset before her appointment to the Foreign Ministry.