Ilan Mor

Ilan Mor was born in 1955 in Israel

Ilan Mor was born in Israel in 1955. His parents came from Romania and Poland and survived the Holocaust, while many of their relatives were murdered in Auschwitz. He earned a B.A. in political science and labor studies and an M.A. in international relations at Tel Aviv University.

He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1983. He served in Monrovia, Los Angeles, Bonn and Beijing, and was deputy head of the embassy in Berlin from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior foreign policy adviser in the IDF Planning Directorate.

He was ambassador to Hungary from 2011 to 2016. In 2013 he protested a state journalism award given to Ferenc Szaniszló, a television host known for remarks against Jews and Roma, and Szaniszló later agreed to return it. From 2016 to 2018 he advised Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.

He served as ambassador to Croatia from 2019 to 2022. He later became a Europe researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and writes on Europe and China.