Alexander Ben Zvi

Alexander Ben Zvi was born in 1956 in Chernivtsi

Alexander Ben Zvi was born on December 5, 1956, in Chernivtsi. He immigrated to Israel in 1971. He is married and has 4 children, and he speaks 7 languages.

He earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and Slavic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a master's degree in national security studies from the National Defense College in Buenos Aires. He also holds a doctorate in international relations from Danubius University in Slovakia.

He joined the foreign service in 1983 and worked on Eastern Europe and in Poland. He helped organize the first March of the Living in 1988. He later served in Peru, Russia and Argentina, and headed departments for South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

He was ambassador to Costa Rica from 2002 and to Slovakia from 2010. In 2015 he became head of the Europe-Asia division of the Foreign Ministry. He served as ambassador to Poland from 2019 and to Russia from 2020 until 2024, when Simona Halperin replaced him.