Michael Brodsky

Michael Brodsky was born in 1972 in Saint Petersburg

Michael Brodsky was born in 1972 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg. He is the son of Valery Brodsky. In 1990 he immigrated to Israel with his family.

He earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Tel Aviv University. He also holds a master's degree in diplomacy and national security from the same university.

Brodsky joined the Foreign Ministry in 2002. He worked as press attaché and then political attaché at the embassy in Moscow, and as director of public affairs at the embassy in London from 2009 to 2013. He also headed the ministry team on Central Asia.

From 2015 to 2018 he was ambassador to Kazakhstan and nonresident ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. In 2016 he coordinated the first visit of an Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Kazakhstan. In 2021 he became ambassador to Ukraine, where his statement that Stepan Bandera was a Nazi collaborator drew criticism from Ukrainian nationalist figures.

In March 2022 he was injured in a car accident in Poland while helping Israelis leave Ukraine. In 2025 he received the Ukrainian Person of the Year award for strengthening ties between Ukraine and Israel. He is married to Regina Shafir and has 3 children.