Noah Gal Gendler

Noah Gal Gendler was born in 1957 in Haifa

Noah Gal Gendler was born on August 12, 1957, in Haifa. He served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1975 to 1979 as a captain in the artillery.

He earned a B.A. in geography and political science at the University of Haifa in 1985. In 1986 he received an M.A. in political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He joined the Foreign Ministry cadet course in late 1986 and began work there in 1987. He served in Kathmandu, Nepal, and from 1991 to 1995 as deputy chief of mission in Bangkok, Thailand, where he visited Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to help form diplomatic ties. He later headed the ministry's cadet course.

He was ambassador to Uzbekistan from 1997 and later head of personnel at the Foreign Ministry. He was ambassador to Bulgaria from 2006 to 2011, then took leave to work in business development at the water company Mekorot. He was ambassador in Kenya from 2017 and in Albania from 2019, where he was reprimanded over an embassy document on electoral reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He is married to Liron, the daughter of former Kiryat Bialik mayor Dani Zak. The couple has 5 children.