David Danieli

David Danieli was born in 1948 in Hadera

David Danieli was born in Hadera on September 21, 1948, and grew up in Netanya. His parents, Natan and Rachel, belonged to the Zionist Youth movement in Poland. They came to the Land of Israel in 1934 and were among the founders of Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak.

He served in the Armored Corps and fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in international relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1975, working on the nuclear programs of Middle Eastern states. After the 1981 strike on Iraq's reactor, he helped write the government's white paper on the operation. In 1982 he helped found the ministry's disarmament department and then served at Israel's mission to the UN in Geneva until 1987.

From 1990 he worked in Seoul to reopen Israel's embassy in South Korea, which the Korean government agreed to in 1991. He was ambassador to Singapore from 1998 to 2001 and ambassador to India from 2003 to 2007. From 2007 to 2015 he was a division head and deputy director general for policy at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.

He is married to Pnina and has four children.