The Guardian reports that Israel’s most recent ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, returned to Jerusalem “after being repeatedly warned over security breaches at his residence in St John’s Wood”. Apparently “the breaches related to late night visits by individuals to his official home”. The Israeli media is rife with scandalous speculation.

News site Ynet reports lurid, unverified claims that married Taub

“brings men home without reporting them to the embassy’s security officer as required by security procedures”

Oy!

There are ever wilder rumours floating around elsewhere, though it’s perhaps worth noting that conspiracy theories of this type are nothing new. Not like the Guardian to go in for salacious rumour-mongering…