Amira Oron

Amira Oron was born in 1967

Amira Oron was born in 1967. She graduated from the Mae Boyar High School in Jerusalem in 1984.

She studied Middle Eastern studies and Arabic language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. She speaks Arabic.

She joined the Foreign Ministry in 1991 as a cadet. Her posts included deputy economic consul in Chicago, economic attaché in Egypt, spokesperson of the mission to the European Union, and director of the ministry's Egypt department. From January 2015 to December 2016 she headed the Israeli embassy in Ankara, after Turkey had lowered the level of relations following the Gaza flotilla.

In October 2018 a Foreign Ministry committee chose her as ambassador to Egypt, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not bring her name to the cabinet and considered Ayoub Kara instead. The cabinet approved her appointment in June 2020, and she presented her credentials to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in September 2020. She served until the end of 2024.

She is a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and lives in Jerusalem.