Barukh Binah  Barukh Binah (Hebrew: ברוך בינה) (born 1950 in Tel Aviv) is the former Israeli Ambassador to Denmark. Previously he was the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. with the rank of ambassador. He has been a member of Israel's Foreign Service since 1979. Barukh Binah’s family history is linked closely with modern Israeli history. His great grandfather, author Simcha Ben-Zion (Gutmann) was among the founders of Tel Aviv in 1909. His grandfather, Barukh Binah MBE (a survivor of the infamous Kishinev pogrom of 1903), served as the District Officer of Haifa and Samaria in the British mandatory government of Palestine and founded the newspaper "Hadashot Mehaaretz" (News from the Land), which later became the leading Israeli daily Haaretz. Binah grew up in the Negev city of Beersheba (Be'er Sheva). In 1969 he joined the Israel Defense Forces, where he served until 1974 as an analyst and a research officer. Barukh Binah holds degrees with honors in History, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science and Strategic Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa University and Israel's National Defense College (where he wrote his dissertation, “Israel and the American Jewish Community: a Brotherhood in Distress”). Binah served as The Secretary of the Israel Oriental Society and contributed to literary periodicals. He keeps his literary activity to date: in 2017 he published his book "It Only Seems to be Healing" (Hebrew poetry). He also published a translation of Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"  Barukh Binah joined the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979. In 1985, he was appointed Israel’s Spokesman and Press Officer in New York. From 1991 to 1992, Binah served as the Director of the Press Division and Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1992, he was assigned to the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. as Counselor for Congressional Affairs, later becoming the Embassy's Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs. From 1999 to 2001, Binah served as Director of Congressional Affairs and Consulates in the United States. He also held a variety of research and policy planning positions, including Comptroller of Research Quality. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the Head of the International Affairs Bureau in the Center for Political Research of the Foreign Ministry.