David Govrin

David Govrin was born in 1963 in Jerusalem

David Govrin was born in Jerusalem in 1963 and grew up there. His father, Yosef Govrin, was a diplomat who served as Israel's ambassador to Romania and Austria.

After serving in the Air Force, he studied Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He later earned a PhD there, with a thesis on liberal Arab discourse on reform and democratization from 1990 to 2005. He was a researcher at the Truman Institute and speaks fluent Arabic.

He joined the diplomatic service in 1989 at the embassy in Cairo, and was later first secretary there. He also worked as a political counselor at Israel's mission to the UN in New York and headed the Jordan department at the Foreign Ministry. In 2016 he became Israel's 13th ambassador to Egypt and served until 2020.

After the Israel-Morocco agreement, he headed the Israeli liaison office in Rabat. In 2022 he was recalled for an inquiry into suspicions of financial irregularities and sexual harassment. The inquiry cleared his name, and he returned to Morocco in 2023.

He retired from the Foreign Ministry in 2024 and has lectured on diplomacy and the Middle East at Reichman University and Ariel University since 2025. In 2026 a labor court ruled that the state must compensate him over his recall from Morocco.