Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta
Israeli diplomatic mission in Atlanta covering seven south-eastern US states; its event and planning files were hacked and published in 2024
| Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta
| |
|---|---|
| Logo |  State of Israel logo used on the consulate's website |
| Type | Consulate general of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Headquarters | 1100 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, United States |
| Area served | Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi |
| Key people | Eitan Weiss (consul general from August 2025) |
| Website | embassies.gov.il/atlanta |
The Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta (styled on its website as the Consulate General of Israel Southeast USA, Atlanta) is a diplomatic mission of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1] It is responsible for outreach to seven south-eastern states: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.[2]
In October 2024 Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published "event details, invitations and correspondence" taken from the consulate. It said the files "reveal details on this Israeli diplomatic mission's lobbying efforts targeting Black and leftist communities", and that "the hackers refer to the operation as Op Anti Lobby".[2] DDoSecrets attaches its standard "Cyberwar" warning that such datasets carry "an increased chance of malware, ulterior motives and altered or implanted data, or false flags/fake personas". The material described below has not been independently verified.[2]
Consul general
The consulate's website says Eitan Weiss became Consul General of Israel to the Southeastern United States in August 2025. He joined the Foreign Service in 2008, served as spokesperson and head of public diplomacy at the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, as deputy spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, and from 2017 as deputy chief of mission at the consulate general in Los Angeles.[3]
| Name | Title | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Anat Sultan-Dadon | Consul general and head of mission | in office in 2020 (according to the leaked files)[4] |
| Eitan Weiss | Consul general | from August 2025[3] |
Leaked files
The release, credited to "Op Anti Lobby", contains an export of eight Asana planning boards from March 2020 to June 2021 and invitation and RSVP records for 20 events held between May 2019 and July 2024.[4][2] According to the leaked consulate documents published by Distributed Denial of Secrets:
- Students and churches. A July 2020 section on "Academic Affairs and Jewish Community Relations" includes a task headed "Hasbara for Students", with subtasks including "Create a reading list by grade level/age" and "Create list of groups to visit Israel: [Non-Jewish] Passengers, Caravans for Democracy, CUFI; [Jewish] Birthright". CUFI is Christians United for Israel. Related tasks cover "Pro-Israel Student Programming with Hillels of Georgia" and calls with CUFI staff.[4]
- Community outreach. A "Strategic Partnerships" board is divided by community. It lists historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Juneteenth under "African-American"; "Pastoral-Rabbinical Partnership" under "Black-Jewish"; Ebenezer Baptist Church under "Christian"; A Wider Bridge under LGBTQ outreach; the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; and the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) police programme. A July 2020 comment says that "44 (42% of the total) HBCUs are in our region".[4]
- Politics. A "Government and Political Affairs" section from mid-2020 includes "Monitoring RNC", "DNC Platform for Israel", "Off-the-Record: Governors, State Representatives, and State Senators" and "GA Lobbyists".[4]
- Congressional staff. A "Congressional Staffer Breakfast Briefing" on 27 June 2024 was sent from the consulate's press address to 33 invitees, mostly House of Representatives staff plus staff of four US senators; 11 accepted.[5]
- Events. Invitation lists for events such as Yom Ha'atzmaut 2019 ran to about 1,600 addresses, including congressional and Georgia legislature offices. For a lecture by Alex Ryvchin on 4 November 2019 the RSVP form listed co-inviters including the consulate, the Israeli American Council, the Jewish Agency and Hillels of Georgia. Other events included a 2021 webinar with Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.[5]
Names of private individuals in the invitation lists are not reproduced here.
See also
External links
- Consulate General of Israel Southeast USA, Atlanta (official website)
Notes
- ↑ Consulate General of Israel Southeast USA, Atlanta, Contact us embassies.gov.il, accessed 21 October 2026. MFA-side.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Distributed Denial of Secrets, Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta, United States ddosecrets.org, 8 October 2024, accessed 21 October 2026. Filed under "Cyberwar, Hack, Government, Embassies", with the standard Cyberwar disclaimer.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Consulate General of Israel Southeast USA, Atlanta, Eitan Weiss, Consul General embassies.gov.il, last updated 13 August 2025, accessed 21 October 2026. MFA-side.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta files (published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), Asana project export, March 2020 – June 2021, dataset download data.ddosecrets.org, accessed 21 October 2026. Hacked data; authenticity not independently verified.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta files (published by Distributed Denial of Secrets), Greenvelope event and RSVP records, May 2019 – July 2024, dataset download data.ddosecrets.org, accessed 21 October 2026. Hacked data; authenticity not independently verified.