Ron Prosor

Ron Prosor was born in 1958 in Kfar Saba

Ron Prosor was born on 11 October 1958 in Kfar Saba. His paternal grandfather fled Nazi Germany with his family and moved to Palestine in 1936. His father, Uri Prosor, was also an Israeli diplomat and served as ambassador to Jamaica, and his mother Nechama worked as a nurse.

He served as an artillery officer in the IDF and reached the rank of major. During his service he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science with distinction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is married to Hadas and they have three children.

He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1986 and served as embassy spokesman in Bonn and London. In Bonn he was among the first Israeli representatives to build ties with East Germany. He was a political advisor in Washington from 1998 to 2002 and took part in the Wye and Camp David talks.

He was Director General of the Foreign Ministry from 2004, during the 2005 Gaza disengagement. He served as ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2007 and as Israel's 16th ambassador to the UN from 2011 to 2015. In 2012 he became a Vice President of the UN General Assembly.

In 2016 he became head of the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy at IDC Herzliya. He took up the post of ambassador to Germany in August 2022, and his term was extended in 2025.