Anna Azari (born 1959 , Vilnius , Lithuania ) is an Israeli diplomat .
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Biography
Anna Azari's grandfather - Mikhail Edelstein, born in 1898, in 1917 is a member of “Poalei Zion”, since 1918 a member of the RCP (b), member of the Civil War, secretary of the district committee in Moscow. In the 1920s. student of the Military Engineering Academy, then an engineer [1] .
In 1972 she emigrated with her family to Israel. She graduated from Haifa University (1983, Bachelor of English History and Literature), and thereafter received a master’s degree in political science. She also studied at the Hebrew University , where she took a special course in Russian history. After returning from the post of ambassador to Ukraine, she completed a course of study at the Higher National Military College.
Since 1983, at work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel . Anna recalled: “Maybe I would not work at the Foreign Ministry if it were not for my husband. We were then in the last year of university ... my husband studied political science. But he had already decided that he would be a reformist rabbi. And I went to the examinations for admission to the Foreign Ministry. The husband said: "You have English better - go and try." At the first written exam, I came in jeans, because, besides them, there was nothing to wear. But on the second round of the exam, for a personal interview, my mother-in-law dressed me so elegantly that at the end of the interview I was asked if I had come to a cocktail ” [2] .
In 1989-1992, the consul in San Francisco. In 1995–1997, she worked at the Israeli embassy in Russia, held the post of deputy head of the diplomatic mission, “actually led her work, since then Ambassador Aliza Shenkar was poorly oriented in Russian realities” [3] .
After returning from Russia and before being appointed to Ukraine, he is deputy head of the CIS countries department at the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
In 1999-2003, the Israeli ambassador to Ukraine and in combination in Moldova.
Since 2005, she has headed the Eurasia department in the Department of Central Europe and Eurasia at the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
In 2006-2010, the Israeli ambassador to Russia and in combination in Belarus.
Since October 2014, the Israeli ambassador to Poland [4] [5] .
Her husband, Meir Azari, is a reformist rabbi .
Sources
- ↑ Reznik A.V. Trotsky and comrades. - SPb: Publishing House of the European University at St. Petersburg, 2017. - p. 333.
- ↑ News Time: N ° 203, November 03, 2006
- “Hamas militants lie in morgues” - Newspaper. Ru
- ↑ Anna Azari will head the Israeli Embassy in Poland (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is September 26, 2014. Archived November 29, 2014.
- ↑ Ambasador Izraela w Polsce