Jerusalem
Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found naked and tied up in bondage gear outside his ambassadorial residence. Police discovered the drunken Tsuriel Raphael wearing nothing but sex toys. After they removed the ball-gag from his mouth, he told them he was the Israeli ambassador, and they released him. Raphael broke no Salvadoran laws, but Israel’s Foreign Ministry recalled him as soon as it learned of the incident. “We’re talking about behavior that is unbecoming of a diplomat,” a ministry spokeswoman said. This is not the first time an ambassador has embarrassed Israel. In 2000, Israel’s ambassador to France died of a heart attack in a Paris hotel while cavorting with a woman who was not his wife. In 2005, an Israeli envoy to Brazil was reprimanded for posting pictures of nude Brazilian women on the Internet.
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