United States Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, Leaving His Position During Judicial Reform and Demonstrations

 Nadene Goldfoot

Thomas Richard Nides (born 1961) is an American banker and government official who is the United States ambassador to Israel since December 2021. He was born to a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota, the son of Shirley (née Gavronsky) and Arnold Richard Nides. He is the youngest of eight children. His father was the founder of Nides Finance, a national consumer finance company, and president of Temple Israel and the Duluth Jewish Federation.   

 From 2013 to 2021, he was the managing director and vice-chairman of Morgan Stanley, serving as a member of the firm's management and operating committee. Nides was previously appointed the deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2011 to 2013 during the Obama administration. He has served in various financial and governmental roles throughout his life. 

President Biden may have invited President Hertzog of Israel to visit him, but something has happened to the USA's ambassador to Israel.  

‘She’s as good as it gets,’ says ambassador who leaves deputy in charge in Jerusalem at a time of heightened tension between the Netanyahu and Biden governments.

Stephanie Hallett, the US Embassy Jerusalem’s Deputy Chief of Mission, took over for ambassador Tom Nides today. Nides stepped down from his role and Hallett has assumed responsibilities as the Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires. She will continue in the role until the Senate confirms a new ambassador.

Nides explained that he plans on returning to the U.S. for personal and family reasons, after living in Israel for almost two years while his wife, who is a senior executive at CNN, resides in Washington.  

In 1992, at age 31, he married Virginia Carpenter Moseley, who is currently CNN's senior vice president of newsgathering for the network's U.S. operation, in an interfaith ceremony conducted by a Lutheran minister, Dr. James D. Ford, chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Nides and Moseley are parents to two adult children: a daughter, Taylor, and a son, Max Moseley.

Nides describes himself as a "liberal, reform Jew," and was named by The Jerusalem Post as one of the fifty most influential Jews for 2022.  He's what I call a Hellenized Jew.

I can see right away that with Netanyahu's new government 

of more Orthodox Judaism represented, he would have had 

a harder time understanding their position.  Also, it's hard on a 

marriage to be separated so far apart.  

Resource:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/career-diplomat-stephanie-hallett

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