David Sultan

David Sultan was born in 1938 in Cairo

David Sultan was born in 1938 in the Heliopolis neighborhood of Cairo, the youngest child of Victoria and Yom-Tov. In September 1949 he immigrated to Israel with his parents. The family settled in Givatayim, where he went to school.

He joined the Artillery Corps in August 1958. In 1960 he began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned a bachelor's degree in the history of Islamic lands and political science, and a master's degree in the history of Islamic lands and international relations.

He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1963 as a Middle East researcher. He served in Ivory Coast, The Hague, Nairobi, Cairo and Milan. From 1989 he was deputy director general for Middle East affairs and took part in the peace talks that opened at the Madrid Conference.

He was ambassador to Egypt from 1992 to 1996, to Canada from 1996 to 2000 and to Turkey from 2001 to 2003, when he retired. In 2007 he published a book on the normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt. He married Adina in 1971, and they live in Jerusalem.