Isi Yanouka

Yitzhak "Isi" Yanouka (Hebrew: יצחק (איזי) ינוקא; died 8 April 2023) was the Israeli Ambassador to Cameroon.^[1]

Yanouka served as Ambassador to the Ivory Coast,^[2] concurrent in Togo, Benin, and Burkina Faso, from 2013 until 2016. In 2010, the Angolan government refused to receive openly gay Yanouka as the new ambassador due to his sexuality.^[3]

Yanouka married his husband, Rabbi Mikie Goldstein, in the 1990s,^[2] making the latter man the first same-sex spouse of an Israeli envoy.^[4]

On 10 April 2023, it was announced that Yanouka had died.^[5]