23 ex-employees say mission's current staff part of effort to 'whitewash Israel’s first government with explicitly anti-democratic intentions,' urge them to join protest movement

Staff will make trip again in three weeks; Israel's envoys in other countries are expected to follow suit

In first appearance with her Emirati and Bahraini colleagues, settlement advocate-turned diplomat says Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs to be 'solved by direct dialogue'

Former minister for settlement affairs, currently self-quarantined in her new residence, now waiting for date to present her letter of credence to Queen Elizabeth II

Australian-born career diplomat became the prime minister's spokesperson to the foreign media in Ehud Olmert era; will be replaced as UK ambassador by Tzipi Hotovely

Tzachi Hanegbi to replace her as settlements minister; outgoing envoy to UK Mark Regev, formerly Netanyahu's spokesperson for foreign press, expected to return to his old position

Likud's Tzipi Hotovely, opponent of two-state solution and advocate of unilateral West Bank annexation, to replace Netanyahu's ex-spokesperson Mark Regev in London this summer