Israel recalls Salvador ambassador who was found naked, drunk, bound.

[Pierre]

JERUSALEM – Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found bound, drunk and nude, according to Israeli media reports confirmed Monday by a government spokeswoman.

The longtime diplomat, Tsuriel Raphael, has been removed from his post and the Foreign Ministry has begun searching for a replacement, said ministry spokeswoman Zehavit Ben-Hillel.

Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Raphael naked outside his residence, tied up, gagged and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing several sex toys at the time, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.

Ben-Hillel said the reports were accurate and that Raphael has been recalled, although he did not break any laws.

“We're talking about behavior that is unbecoming of a diplomat," she said.

The ambassador did not file a police complaint in the incident, she said.

Raphael had served for six months as the ambassador in El Salvador and for several years at different missions around the world, she said.

The embarrassing affair was one of several involving Israeli diplomats in recent years. In 2000, Israel's ambassador to France died of cardiac arrest in a Paris hotel under circumstances the Foreign Ministry refused to publicize. Media reports said he was with a woman who was not his wife at the time.

Last year, Israel replaced its ambassador to Australia, Naftali Tamir, after he said Israel and Australia are “like sisters" because both are located in Asia and their peoples don't have the Asian characteristics of “yellow skin and slanted eyes."

In 2005, Israel canceled the appointment of a diplomat to Australia after it was discovered that he published pictures of nude Brazilian women on the Internet while on a mission in Brazil.

While Palestinian children are dying, Israel diplomats are indulging in promiscuous activities. What a crazy world.

 

[Renaissance]

Given that Israel's a major world hot-spot for human trafficking it's not surprising these diplomats are doing such activities - what is surprising is that Israel fired them instead of promoting them, i.e. how most of their criminal officials rise up through the ranks.

 

[Niall]

O no doubt the gimp will turn up somewhere, refreshed with another brief to which he can apply his sick mind

 

[stardust]

Given that Israel's a major world hot-spot for human trafficking it's not surprising these diplomats are doing such activities - what is surprising is that Israel fired them instead of promoting them, i.e. how most of their criminal officials rise up through the ranks.

In my opinion, the fact is most that this kind of publicity is harming to Israel's image: one cannot be considered like persecuted people with such behaviours...

 

[Tigersoap]

There is something fishy in this to me.
It looks like a set-up.
Even if he was involved in sexual games, that does not sound like he wanted to be found this way if you see what I mean.
What better way to compromise someone than to control him where you want with sex then "expose" him.

I've looked around the net for the same story and I found this :

Forget about diplomatic immunity. Tsuriel Raphael, Israel's openly gay ambassador to El Salvador, has been recalled after police found him in his yard nearly naked, drunk, tied up and sporting sex toys.

I found the same article in various Gay news site but I could not find another reference for the supposed homosexuality of Tsuriel Raphael.

The fact that this bit does not appear on other news site makes me wonder why ?

Is Israel so scared to have an ambassador that does not fit the respectable "profile" ?

It's an open question for me.