Daniel Rubinstein
{{Short description|American diplomat}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Daniel Rubinstein
|office = United States Ambassador to Tunisia
|image = Daniel Rubinstein portrait.jpg
|president = Barack Obama
Donald Trump
|term_start = October 22, 2015
|term_end = January 15, 2019
|predecessor = Jacob Walles
|successor = Donald Blome
|office1 = United States Special Envoy for Syria
|president1 = Barack Obama
|term_start1 = March 17, 2014
|term_end1 = July 27, 2015
|predecessor1 = Robert Ford
(as Ambassador)
|successor1 = Michael Ratney
|office2 = United States Consul General in Jerusalem
|president2 = Barack Obama
|term_start2 = September 6, 2009
|term_end2 = July 29, 2012
|predecessor2 = Jacob Walles
|successor2 = Michael Ratney
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}}
|birth_place =
|death_date =
|death_place =
|spouse = Julie Adams
|alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley
}}
Daniel H. Rubinstein (born 1967) is a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat he had served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Sudan. He has served as consul general, the top U.S. official at the Jerusalem consulate and directed the State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs. From October 2015 to January 2019, Rubinstein served as United States Ambassador to Tunisia; he was succeeded by Donald A. Blome.
Career
Rubinstein is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/daniel-rubenstein |title=Daniel Rubinstein|website=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=July 17, 2024}} A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Rubinstein also served as Consul General and Chief of Mission in Jerusalem from 2009 to 2012, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan from 2005 to 2008, and as Chief of the Civilian Observer Unit in the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, Egypt. Earlier, he served as Director of the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs in the Department of State from 2004 to 2005. Rubinstein speaks Arabic, Hebrew, and Portuguese.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/213571.htm |title=W|accessdate=June 24, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602163933/https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/213571.htm |archivedate=June 2, 2017 }}
Rubinstein, one of the State Department's leading “Arabists,” replaced Ambassador Robert Ford as the US Special Envoy to Syria.{{Cite web | url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-arabist-is-dcs-new-envoy-to-syria/ |title = Jewish Arabist is DC's new envoy to Syria| website=The Times of Israel }}{{Cite web | url=http://www.jta.org/2014/03/18/news-opinion/united-states/kerry-names-daniel-rubinstein-as-chief-syria-envoy |title = Daniel Rubinstein tapped as chief Syria envoy|date = March 18, 2014}}
In March 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Rubinstein would replace Robert Stephen Ford as the United States Special Envoy for Syria.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/middleeast/kerry-announces-us-representative-to-syrian-opposition.html?_r=0 |title = Kerry Announces U.S. Representative to Syrian Opposition|newspaper = The New York Times|date = March 17, 2014|last1 = Gordon|first1 = Michael R.}} Rubinstein thus served as Ambassador from October 2015 to January 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/ambassador-rubinstein-makes-final-stop-north-africa-american-cemetery |title=Ambassador Rubinstein Makes Final Stop at North Africa American Cemetery |publisher= American Battle Monuments Commission |date=January 18, 2019 |website=www.abmc.gov |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428105755/https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/ambassador-rubinstein-makes-final-stop-north-africa-american-cemetery |archive-date=April 28, 2019 |access-date=January 5, 2020}}
Rubinstein was appointed as Charge d'Affaires ad interim at the US Embassy in Cairo on August 23, 2022.{{Cite web|title=Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, Ambassador Daniel Rubinstein Assumes Duty at U.S. Embassy Cairo|url=https://eg.usembassy.gov/charge-daffaires-ad-interim-ambassador-daniel-rubinstein-assumes-duty-at-u-s-embassy-cairo/|access-date=April 10, 2024|website=U.S. Embassy in Egypt|date=August 23, 2024 |language=en-US}}
Rubinstein was appointed as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Sudan on February 23, 2024.{{Cite web|title=U.S. Ambassador John T. Godfrey has concluded his tenure as the first American Ambassador to Sudan in a quarter century|url=https://sd.usembassy.gov/u-s-ambassador-john-t-godfrey-has-concluded-his-tenure-as-the-first-american-ambassador-to-sudan-in-a-quarter-century-2/|access-date=April 10, 2024|website=U.S. Embassy in Sudan|date=February 23, 2024 |language=en-US}}
References
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{{s-ttl|title=United States Consul General in Jerusalem|years=2009–2012}}
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{{s-bef|before=Robert Ford|as=United States Ambassador to Syria}}
{{s-ttl|title=United States Special Envoy for Syria|years=2014–2015}}
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{{s-ttl|title=United States Ambassador to Tunisia|years=2015–2019}}
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Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia
Category:20th-century American Jews
Category:United States special envoys
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:United States Foreign Service personnel
Category:21st-century American Jews