Anna Azari

Anna Azari was born in 1959 in Vilnius

Anna Azari was born on 27 August 1959 in Vilnius, in Soviet Lithuania. She moved to Israel with her family in 1972.

She earned a bachelor's degree in history and English literature and a master's degree in political science at the University of Haifa. She also completed a Russian studies program at the Hebrew University and graduated from the National Security College.

Azari joined the Foreign Ministry in 1983 and served as consul general in San Francisco from 1989 to 1992. She later worked at the embassy in Moscow and, from 1999 to 2003, was ambassador to Ukraine and Moldova. In 2005 she became head of the ministry's Central Europe and Eurasia department.

She was ambassador to Russia from 2006 to 2010. During that time, the two countries agreed to end visa requirements for tourists. She was ambassador to Poland from 2014 to 2019 and was appointed ambassador to the Czech Republic in 2021.

She is married to Rabbi Meir Azari, a Reform rabbi in Tel Aviv. They have 2 children.