Shimon Stein

Shimon Stein was born in 1948 in Hadera

Shimon Stein was born on 9 March 1948 in Hadera. He served in the IDF in the Paratroopers Brigade. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974 and worked at its Centre for Political Research. From 1980 to 1985 he served at the Israeli embassy in Bonn, West Germany, and from 1988 to 1993 at the embassy in Washington. He also took part in Israeli delegations to multilateral arms control talks, and in 1998 became a deputy director general of the ministry for the CIS and Eastern and Central Europe.

In 2001 he became Israel's ambassador to Germany and held the post until 2007. He was involved in the 2005 deal for Israel to buy German submarines. He spoke out on Iran, on Syrian support for Hezbollah, and on antisemitism in Germany.

He was succeeded as ambassador by Yoram Ben-Zeev. After leaving the Foreign Ministry, he became a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies.