Ismail Khaldi

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office = Deputy Consul in San Francisco
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birth_place = Flagicon|ISR Khawalid, Israel
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religion = Islam


website = http://www.ishmaelkhaldi.com
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Ismail Khaldi is the first Bedouin deputy consul of the State of Israel. In June 2006, he was appointed to serve in San Francisco. [cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3266233,00.html|title=Israel's first Bedouin envoy|author=Asafa Peled|date=June 22, 2006|publisher=Ynetnews] [cite news|url=http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16776&intcategoryid=4|title=From shepherd to diplomat: Bedouin named deputy consul|author=Alexandra J. Wall|date=July 2, 2006|publisher=j. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California]

Ismail Khaldi holds a Masters Degree in Political Science from Tel Aviv University. He served in Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Police, and in the Israel Defense Forces as a political analyst.

He has called himself a "proud Muslim Arab Israeli" and "proud Israeli Bedouin."

References

External links

* [http://www.ishmaelkhaldi.com/mambo/index.php Ishmael Khaldi's blog] : bio, interviews, links
* [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9296.shtml Israeli foreign ministry's token Arab] : coverage of Ismail Khaldi's talk to UC Berkeley students