Tzipi Chotovely

Tzipi Chotovely was born in 1978 in Rehovot

Hotovely was born in Rehovot in 1978 to a religious Jewish family. Her parents, Gabriel and Roziko, immigrated to Israel from Soviet Georgia. She did 2 years of national service, including as a Jewish Agency emissary in Atlanta.

She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in law at Bar-Ilan University and became a lawyer in 2003. She began doctoral studies at Tel Aviv University but left them when she entered politics. From 2006 she appeared as a panelist on television and wrote an opinion column in Maariv.

She joined Likud in 2008 and entered the Knesset in 2009, where she chaired the committee on the status of women. She later served as deputy minister of transportation, deputy minister of science and, from 2015, deputy minister of foreign affairs. In 2020 she became minister of settlement affairs and then resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law.

In August 2020 she was appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom, an appointment criticized by several British Jewish figures over her views. She ended her term in September 2025. In April 2026 the government approved her as head of the National Public Diplomacy Directorate.

She is married to Or Alon, and they have 3 daughters.