Biden to nominate Thomas Nides as US ambassador to Israel

US president to nominate Wall Street banker and ex-State Department official Thomas Nides after months-long delay.

United States President Joe Biden will nominate Wall Street banker and former State Department official Thomas R Nides to be the country’s next ambassador to Israel, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday. Nides is vice chairman of Morgan Stanley, the fourth-largest US investment banking firm, and had been deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2013 during the administration of former President Barack Obama. Biden has taken months to formally name his nominee to take up the sensitive positing, raising questions from some observers about what the choice would say about the US president’s policies in Israel and Palestine.