Dov Segev-Steinberg

Dov Segev-Steinberg was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv

Dov Segev-Steinberg was born in Tel Aviv in 1956 to parents who survived the Holocaust. His father came from Poland in 1948 and his mother from Hungary in 1949. He grew up in Ramat Gan and studied in the Middle East studies track at Blich High School.

He served in the IDF Intelligence Directorate in the Hatzav unit. In 1980 he began studying Arabic literature and modern Middle East history at Tel Aviv University. During his studies he guided Jewish youth at summer camps in the United States and Germany for the Jewish Agency.

He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1983 and was consul in Houston from 1990. He later served in Cairo, as deputy ambassador in Beijing, as consul general in Mumbai and as head of Israel's trade mission in Qatar. He then directed the ministry's Egypt department.

He was ambassador to South Africa from 2008 to 2013 and ambassador to Finland and Estonia from 2016 to 2020. In 2022 he went to Myanmar, where after the military coup he served as chargé d'affaires. He retired in January 2024 after 40 years of diplomatic service.