Thomas Nides
He will replace senior diplomat Michael Ratney, who has served as charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem since June.
The move ends a nearly 10-month period in which Washington had no official envoy in the Jewish state.
Deborah Lipstadt, the administration’s choice to serve as Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, has also yet to be confirmed.
Thomas Nides cleared the second-to-last hurdle before being official.
The nomination will now go to the Senate for confirmation.
Sources say that Thomas Nides, a former Obama administration official, has been picked by the president to serve as U.S. ambassador to Israel.
An executive at Morgan Stanley, he previously served as deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2011 to 2013.
