Yuval Rotem

Yuval Rotem was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv

Yuval Rotem was born in Tel Aviv on March 21, 1959, to Rachel and Israel Frenkel. He grew up in Givatayim and went to Yironi Tet high school in Tel Aviv.

After his army service he studied political science and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned a B.A. and completed an M.A. in 1988. During his studies he worked in Washington as an aide to Congressman Richard Gephardt.

He worked as an ECG technician at Ichilov Hospital and as a parliamentary assistant in the Knesset. He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1985. In 1989 he became spokesman for Israel's mission to the UN and its consulate in New York.

From 1996 he was chief of staff to the foreign minister. He was consul general in Los Angeles from 1999 and ambassador to Australia from 2007 to 2013, also covering New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. He later headed the ministry's public diplomacy directorate.

In October 2016 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named him acting director general of the Foreign Ministry, and later that year he got the post permanently. He left in 2020 and was replaced by Alon Ushpiz. He is married to Miri and has 3 children.