This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Ismail Khaldi (Arabic: إسماعيل خالدي, Hebrew: איסמעיל חאלדי; born 1971)[1][2] is the first Bedouin diplomat in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He said his family's ties with its Jewish neighbors go back to the days of the early Zionist pioneers from Eastern Europe who settled in the Galilee region in the 1920s.

"[3] On Sunday 5th Jul 2020, an internal committee appointed Ishmael Khaldi as Israel's first Bedouin Ambassador, to take up the post in Eritrea.

[9][10] In June, 2020, Khaldi filed a police complaint after he was stopped by security guards at Jerusalem’s central bus station and physically assaulted.

He was also disrupted by activists at Rutgers University and by Julio Pino, a former professor of history at Kent State, who shouted "Death to Israel" during his lecture.