List of Israeli ambassadors

The following is a list of Israeli ambassadors.

Current Israeli Ambassadors

Updated May 2, 2023

Host state (common names)	Ref	Israeli Ambassador	Embassy Website
Albania^[1]		Galit Peleg^[2]	Tirana
Angola^[3]		Shimon Solomon	Luanda
Argentina^[4]		Yoed Magen	Buenos Aires
Australia		Mark Sofer	Canberra
Austria		Talya Lador-Fresher	Vienna
Azerbaijan	Ref	Dan Stav	Baku
Belarus		Alon Shoham	Minsk
Belgium^[5]		Simona Frankel	Brussels
Brazil		Yossi Avraham Shelley	Brasilia
Bulgaria		Irit Lillian^[6]	Sofia
Cameroon^[7]		Isi Yanouka	Yaoundé
Canada		Nimrod Barkan	Ottawa
Chile		Marina Rosenberg	Santiago
China^[8]		Irit Ben-Abba	Beijing
Colombia		Marco Sermoneta	Bogotá
Costa Rica^[9]		Amir Ofek	San José
Côte d'Ivoire^[10]		Rony Yedidia Clein	Abidjan
Croatia		Ilan Mor^[11]	Zagreb
Cyprus		Shmuel (Sammy) Revel	Nicosia
Czech Republic		Daniel Meron	Prague
Denmark		Benny Dagan	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic^[12]		Daniel Biran Bayor	Santo Domingo
Ecuador		Zeev Harel	Quito
Egypt	Ref	David Govrin	Cairo
Eritrea		Gadi Harpaz	Asmara
Ethiopia^[13]		Raphael Morav	Addis Ababa
Finland^[14]		Hagit Ben-Yaakov	Finland
France		Talya Lador-Fresher^[15]	Paris
Georgia		Hadas Ester Meitzad	Tbilisi
Germany		Jeremy Issacharoff	Berlin
Ghana		Shani Cooper	Accra
Greece		Yossi Amrani	Athens
Guatemala^[16]		Mattanya Cohen	Guatemala
Holy See		Oren David	Vatican
Hungary		Yacov Hadas-Handelsman	Budapest
India^[17]		Naor Gilon	New Delhi
Ireland		Ophir Kariv	Dublin
Italy^[18]		Dror Eydar	Rome
Japan		Yaffa Ben-Ari	Tokyo
Jordan		Amir Weissbrod	Amman
Kazakhstan^[19]		Edwin Yabo Glusman	Astana
Kenya^[20]		Oded Joseph	Nairobi
Latvia		Lironne Bar-Sade	Riga^[21]
Lithuania		Yossi Avni-Levy^[22]	Vilnius^[23]
Mexico^[24]		Jonathan Peled	Mexico City
Myanmar		Dov Segev-Steinberg Chargé d'affaires	Yangon
Nepal		Benny Omer	Kathmandu
Netherlands		Modi Ephraim	The Hague
Nigeria^[25]		Shimon Ben-Shoshan	Abuja
Norway^[26]		Alon Roth-Snir	Oslo
Panama		Itai Bardov	Panama
Paraguay	^[27]	Yoed Magen	Argentina
Peru		Asaf Ichilevich	Lima
Philippines		Rafael Harpaz	Manila
Poland		Anna Azari	Warsaw
Portugal	^[28]	Dor Shapira	Lisbon
Romania		David Sarang	Bucharest
Russia		Gary Koren	Moscow
Senegal^[29]		Roi Rosenblit	Dakar
Serbia^[30]		Alona Fisher-Kamm	Belgrade
Singapore^[31]		Sagi Karni	Singapore
Slovakia		Zvi Aviner-Vapni	Bratislava
South Africa^[32]		Lior Keinan	Pretoria
South Korea^[33]		Akiva Tor	Seoul
South Sudan		Hanan Goder
Spain^[34]		Rodica Radian-Gordon	Madrid
Sweden		Ilan Ben-Dov	Stockholm
Switzerland^[35]		Jacob Keidar	Bern
Thailand^[36]		Orna Sagiv	Bangkok
Ukraine^[37]		Joel Lion	Kiev
United Arab Emirates^[38]		Eitan Na'eh	Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom		Tzipi Hotovely	London
United States	Ref	Michael Herzog	Washington
Uruguay		Yoed Magen	Montevideo
Uzbekistan^[39]		Eddie Shapira	Tashkent
Vietnam^[40]		Nadav Eshcar	Hanoi

Ambassadors to International Organizations

Current ambassadors from Israel to international organizations

Host organization	Ref	Location (Website)	Ambassador
Conference on Disarmament		Geneva, Switzerland	Eviatar Manor
European Union		Brussels, Belgium	Aharon Leshno-Yaar
International Civil Aviation Organization		Montreal, Canada	Joel Lion
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe		Vienna, Austria	Aviv Shir-on
United Nations	Ref	New York, United States	Gilad Erdan
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization		Rome, Italy	Gila Livnat Rosiner
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development		Paris, France	Nimrod Barkan
United Nations Environment Programme		Nairobi, Kenya	Gil Haskel
United Nations International Organizations in Vienna		Vienna, Austria	Aviv Shir-on
United Nations International Organizations in Geneva		Geneva, Switzerland	Eviatar Manor
International Renewable Energy Agency		Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	Rami Hatan

Consuls General

Updated April 23, 2020 Current consuls general from Israel:

Host state (common names)	Israeli Consul	Consulate Website
Brazil	Dori Goren	São Paulo
Canada	David Levy (diplomat)	Montreal
Canada	Galit Baram	Toronto
China	Nadav Cohen	Guangzhou
China	Ahuva Spieler	Hong Kong
China	Eyal Propper	Shanghai
Egypt	Meir Lefkowitz	Alexandria
Germany	Sandra Simovich	Munich
India	Dana Kursh	Bangalore
India	Yaakov Finkelstein	Mumbai
Russia	Olga Slov	St. Petersburg
United Arab Emirates	Ilan Sztulman^[41]	Dubai
United States	Anat Sultan-Dadon	Atlanta
United States	Zeev Boker	Boston
United States	Aviv Ezra	Chicago
United States	Gilad Katz	Houston
United States	Hillel Newman	Los Angeles
United States	Lior Haiat	Miami
United States	Dani Dayan	New York
United States	Yaron Sideman	Philadelphia
United States	Shlomi Kofman^[42]	San Francisco
Turkey	Yosef Levi-Sfari	Istanbul

Other Senior Diplomatic Representatives

Other senior diplomatic representatives from Israel

Host state	Representative	Title
Armenia	Eliyahu Yerushalmi	Ambassador, based in Jerusalem
Kyrgyzstan	Liat Wexelman	Ambassador, based in Jerusalem
North Macedonia	Dan Oryan	Ambassador, based in Jerusalem
Slovenia	Eyal Sela	Ambassador, based in Jerusalem
Turkmenistan	Moshe Kimhi	Ambassador, based in Jerusalem

Current and Past Ambassadors

Well-known current and past ambassadors from Israel

Ambassador	Host state or organization	Years
Moshe Arens	United States
Shlomo Argov	Mexico, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Yehuda Avner	Great Britain, Ireland, Australia
Daniel Ayalon	United States
Anna Azari	Ukraine & Moldova^[43]
Alan Baker	Canada^[44]
Naomi Ben-Ami	Ukraine^[45]
Yaffa Ben-Ari	Serbia
Ephraim Ben-Matityau	Vietnam^[46]
Eli Cohen	Japan
Mattanya Cohen	El Salvador, Belize	2007–2011
Shlomo Cohen	Venezuela (expelled in January 2009)^[47]
Yaacov Cohen	Spain, Venezuela, the European Union, and Japan & South Korea^[48]
Yohanan Cohen	Romania and Finland
Abba Eban	United States, United Nations
Dr. Israel Eliashiv	Singapore	1987–1990
Yael Rubinstein	Singapore	2013–2017
Dan Gillerman	United Nations
Carmi Gillon	Denmark
Dore Gold	United Nations
Shmuel Hadas	Vatican^[49]
Yehoyada Haim	China^[50]
Chaim Herzog	United Nations
Menahem Kanafi	Eritrea
Arthur Lenk	Azerbaijan
Joseph Ivor Linton	Japan
Zvi Magen	Ukraine, Russia
Eviatar Manor	Sweden
Walid Mansour	Vietnam, Perú^[51]
Zvi Mazel	Romania, Egypt, Sweden
Yitzchak Mayer	Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg
Daniel Megiddo	Ireland
Gideon Meir	Italy^[52]
Golda Meir	Soviet Union
Sallai Meridor	United States
Ora Namir	China	1996–2000
Benjamin Netanyahu	United Nations	1984–1988
David Peleg	Poland
Avi Primor	Germany^[53]
Yitzhak Rabin	United States
Itamar Rabinovich	United States
Gad Ranon	Portugal	1985–1988
Rafi Schutz	Spain
Zalman Shoval	United States
Naftali Tamir	New Zealand
Shevah Weiss	Poland
Ali Yahya	Finland^[54]
Nissim Zvili	France
Yoel Sher	Togo, Hong Kong, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia

Notes

^ The ambassador to Albania also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Bosnia & Herzegovina
^ "Ambassador Boaz Rodkin". mfa.gov.il. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^ The ambassador to Angola also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.
^ The ambassador to Argentina also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Paraguay.
^ The ambassador to Belgium also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Luxembourg.
^ "About the Ambassador". embassies.gov.il. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
^ The ambassador to Cameroon also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
^ The ambassador to China also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Mongolia.
^ The ambassador to Costa Rica also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Nicaragua.
^ The ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Benin, Burkina Faso, Liberia and Togo.
^ "Ambassador". Archived from the original on 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^ The ambassador to the Dominican Republic also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
^ The ambassador to Ethiopia also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Burundi .
^ The ambassador to Finland also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Estonia.
^ Harkov, Lahav (January 13, 2020). "France ambassadorial post among key diplomat roles left empty". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 24 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
^ The ambassador to Guatemala also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to El Salvador.
^ The ambassador to India also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Sri Lanka.
^ The ambassador to Italy also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Malta and San Marino.
^ The ambassador to Kazakhstan also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
^ The ambassador to Kenya also serves as Israel's representative to UN organizations in Nairobi and non-resident Ambassador to Malawi, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
^ "Home". Archived from the original on 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
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^ The ambassador to Mexico also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Bahamas.
^ The ambassador to Nigeria also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Ghana.
^ The ambassador to Norway also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Iceland.
^ "Israel appoints ambassador to Paraguay after embassy dispute". Times of Israel. August 22, 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
^ https://embassies.gov.il/Lisboa/NewsAndEvents/Pages/Entrevista-Embaixador-Dor-Shapira.aspx. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ The ambassador to Senegal also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone.
^ The ambassador to Serbia also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Montenegro.
^ The ambassador to Singapore also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Timor-Leste.
^ The ambassador to South Africa also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Lesotho and Swaziland.
^ "Interview with H.E. Akiva Tor, Israeli Ambassador to the Republic of Korea". Asia Society. Archived from the original on 2021-08-08. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
^ The ambassador to Spain also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Andorra.
^ The ambassador to Switzerland also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Liechtenstein.
^ The ambassador to Thailand also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Cambodia.
^ The ambassador to Ukraine also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Moldova.
^ The ambassador to the United Arab Emirates also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Turkey
^ The ambassador to Uzbekistan also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Tajikistan.
^ The ambassador to Vietnam also serves as Israel's non-resident Ambassador to Laos.
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^ "Shlomi Kofman". Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest San Francisco. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-08-28. Retrieved 2006-08-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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^ "History & Overview of the Israeli Druze". Archived from the original on 2006-08-24. Retrieved 2006-08-16.
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