Philippine Embassy: Mr. Shimon Weinbaum received from the Protocol Department his exequatur which symbolically conveyed the Israeli government's concurrence to his appointment by Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario as Philippine Honorary Consul in Jerusalem. His appointment brings the total number of Philippine Honorary Consular Officials in Israel to three (3), the other two being Honorary Consul General Mr. Carmel Hacohen in Haifa and Northern Israel and Honorary Consul Mr. Boaz Waksman in Ashdod and Southern Israel. Having reached the maximum honorary officials allowed by Israeli law, the Philippines has now full consular coverage of the entire country.
בְנֵי־לֹ֣וט
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.