High Commissioners

• 1920-1925: Sir Herbert Samuel
  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
  Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Early years:...
  
  
• 1925-1928: Sir Herbert Plumer
  Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
  Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE was a British colonial official and soldier born in Torquay who commanded the British Second Army in World War I and later served as High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine.-Military...
  
  
• 1928: Sir Harry Luke
  Harry Charles Luke
  Sir Harry Charles Luke KCMG, GCStJ, D.Litt. of Oxford and honorary LLD of Malta, was an official in the British Colonial Office. He served in Barbados, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Malta, the British Western Pacific Territories and Fiji...
  
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• 1928-1931: Sir John Chancellor
  John Chancellor (British administrator)
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO was a British soldier and colonial official.After a career in the British Army's Corps of Royal Engineers, which included service on the North West Frontier and being Secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee, he became a...
  
  
• 1931-1938: Sir Arthur Wauchope
  Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
  General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope GCB GCMG CIE DSO was a British soldier and colonial administrator.-Military career:Educated at Repton School, Wauchope was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1893. He transferred to 2 Bn Black Watch in 1896.He served in World War I as...
  
  
• 1938-1944: Sir Harold MacMichael
  Harold MacMichael
  Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, GCMG, DSO , was a British colonial administrator.-Early service:MacMichael graduated with a first from Magdalene College, Cambridge. After passing his civil service exam, he entered the service of the British Empire in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
  
  
• 1944-1945: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
  John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
  Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC , was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier. As a young officer in World War I he won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During the 1930s he served as Chief of the...
  
  
• 1945-1948: Sir Alan Cunningham
  Alan Gordon Cunningham
  General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham GCMG, KCB, DSO, MC was a British Army officer, noted for victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. Later he was the seventh and last High Commissioner of Palestine...
  
  

Ambassadors

• 1948-1949: No representation
• 1949-1952: Sir Alexander Knox Helm
• 1952-1954: Sir Francis Evans
• 1954-1957: Sir John Walter Nicholls
• 1957-1963: Sir Francis Brian Anthony Rundall
• 1963-1965: Sir John Greville Stanley Beith
• 1965-1969: Sir Michael Reginald Hadow
• 1969-1972: Sir Ernest John Ward Barnes
• 1972-1975: Sir Bernard Ledwidge
• 1975-1980: Thomas Anthony Keith Elliott
• 1980-1981: John Robinson
• 1981-1984: Sir Patrick Moberly
• 1984-1988: Dr. William Squire
• 1988-1992: Mark Elliott
• 1992-1995: Sir Andrew Burns
  Robert Andrew Burns
  Sir Robert Andrew Burns, KCMG is a former diplomat in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.-Early life:He was born on 21 July 1943 and educated at Highgate School. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a Master of Arts .-Diplomatic career:He was with the Diplomatic Service...
  
  
• 1995-1998: Sir David Manning
  David Manning
  Sir David Geoffrey Manning, GCMG, CVO is a former British diplomat, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007. He authored the so-called "Manning Memo" summarising the details of a January 2003 meeting between American president George W. Bush and British prime minister...
  
  
• 1998-2001: Francis Cornish
  Francis Cornish
  Francis Cornish, CMG LVO, is a retired British diplomat. He has served as the Foreign Office spokesman for Douglas Hurd, senior trade commissioner to Hong Kong , consul-general to Hong Kong and Macao , head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's news department, and ambassador to Israel...
  
  
• 2001-2003: Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
  Sherard Cowper-Coles
  Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles KCMG LVO is a British diplomat. From 2009 to 2010 the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, he is now BAE Systems' international business development director, focusing on the Middle East and south-east Asia...
  
  
• 2003-2006: Simon McDonald
• 2006-2010: Sir Tom Phillips
• 2010-present: Matthew Gould
  Matthew Gould
  Matthew Steven Gould MBE is the current British Ambassador to Israel.-Early life:Gould is descended from Polish Jews who immigrated to the UK...
  
  

External links

• British Embassy in Israel