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Lipstadt to visit Israel in last overseas trip as US special envoy

The U.S. special envoy for monitoring Jew-hatred is scheduled to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

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U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured with Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, held a High Holidays call from the White House on Oct. 9, 2024. Credit: White House.

Deborah Lipstadt, the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the U.S. State Department will visit Israel from Jan. 8 to 9, Foggy Bottom said on Tuesday.

The trip, on which she is scheduled to meet with Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, and with others at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, will be her fourth visit to Israel and fifth to the Middle East, per the State Department.

It will also be her last overseas trip as special envoy, it said.

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