No longer US ambassador, David Friedman is sticking to his sledgehammers
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Western Wall on the final day of his tenure, January 20, 2021 (Courtesy) David Friedman still believes. The bankruptcy lawyer who became one of Donald Trump’s most trusted foreign policy advisers came into his role as US ambassador to Israel with a clearly defined conservative, pro-Israel ideology, and he left office with that worldview firmly intact. Friedman maintains that by coming in as outsiders without any diplomatic experience, he and others in the administration were able to smash...