"Genuine conversations are extremely rare," and an Israeli diplomat hopes to help change that.

A few years ago, my friend and neighbor, Daniel Taub, who had already served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, mentioned to me over breakfast at a local café that he had a play that was about to be produced on a London stage.

I went home, told my wife about it, and we promptly bought tickets to go to London to see it (and, as we always do on…