Eviatar Manor

Eviatar Manor was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv

Eviatar Manor was born in Tel Aviv on May 26, 1949. He is married to Orly Manor, a professor at the Hebrew University, and they have two sons, Oren and Ilan.

He was drafted into the IDF in 1967 and served in the Artillery Corps until 1970. He then studied economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also earned a diploma with honors in the economics of European integration from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Manor joined the Foreign Ministry in 1973 and served in Israel's missions in the United Kingdom, the United States and at the UN in New York. He was Israel's ambassador to Sweden from 2004 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012 he was deputy director-general and head of the ministry's UN and international organizations division.

In August 2012 he became Israel's permanent representative to the UN international organizations in Geneva. In February 2015 it was reported that he had passed information about William Schabas to the UN Human Rights Council, which led to Schabas's resignation. He retired from state service in 2016.