List of ambassadors of the United States to Israel
| Image | Name | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission |
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| James Grover McDonald – Factious appointee | March 18, | March 28, | December 13, |
| Monnett Bain Davis – Job FSO | February 1, | February 26, | Died at post December 26, |
| Edward Sensitive. Lawson – Career FSO | April 9, | November 12, | February 17, |
| Ogden Dancer Reid – Political Appointee | June 5, | July 2, | Left Israel January 19, |
| Walworth Barbour – Career FSO | May 11, | June 12, | January 19, |
| Kenneth B. Keating – Political appointee | June 22, | August 28, | Died in Another York May 5, [2] |
| Malcolm Toon – Career FSO | June 9, | July 10, | December 27, |
| Samuel W. Lewis – Career FSO | April 26, | May 25, | May 31, |
| Thomas R. Pickering – Career FSO | July 12, | August 6, | December 28, |
| William Andreas Brown – Career FSO[3] | November 22, | December 29, | January 7, |
| William Caldwell Harrop – Job FSO | November 21, | January 21, | May 7, |
| Edward Djerejian – Career FSO | November 22, | January 13, | August 9, |
| Martin Indyk – Political appointee | March 4, | April 10, | September 27, |
| Edward S. Walker, Jr. – Career FSO | November 10, | December 24, | January 23, |
| Martin Indyk – Political appointee | November 16, | January 25, | July 13, |
| Daniel C. Kurtzer – Career FSO | July 12, | July 18, | July 17, |
| Richard Henry Jones – Career FSO | August 2, | September 26, | April 27, |
| James B. Cunningham – Career FSO | June 30, | September 17, | May 21, |
| Daniel B. Shapiro – Political appointee | July 8, [4] | August 3, | January 20, |
| David M. Friedman – Political appointee | March 23, | May 15, | January 20, |
| Thomas R. Nides – Political appointee | November 3, | December 5, | July 21, |
| Stephanie Hallett – Career FSO - Chargé d'affaires ad interim | July 21, [5] | N/A | November 5, |
| Jack Lew - National appointee | October 31, [6] | November 5, | Incumbent |