Guy Feldman

{{short description|Israeli ambassador}}

Guy Feldman ({{Langx|he|גיא פלדמן}}) was the Israeli ambassador to Nigeria and The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS){{cite web |title=Nigeria |url=https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Nigeria.aspx |website=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |accessdate=18 May 2020}} from 2016 until 2018{{cite web |title=Environmental Scarcity and Instability in the West African Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin |url=http://clarke.dickinson.edu/w-african-sahel-and-the-lake-chad-basin/ |website=Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues |accessdate=31 May 2020}} and was Ambassador to Eritrea from 2010 until 2013.{{cite web |title=Eritrea |url=https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Eritrea.aspx |website=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |accessdate=18 May 2020}}

In 2017, Feldman cancelled an embassy sponsored Israeli Independence Day celebration, deciding to use the funds to start a soccer league for children living in refugee camps displaced from their homes because of Boko Haram.{{cite news |last1=Eichner |first1=Itmar |title=Israeli ambassador donates party fund to soccer league for Nigerian children |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4961987,00.html |accessdate=31 May 2020 |publisher=Ynet |date=May 14, 2017}}

Feldman was an Israeli Air Force pilot for 22 years before joining the foreign service. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2002 and was in the active reserve until 2015. Feldman earned a Bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Haifa and an MBA from Manchester University.