Yakov Hadas-Handelsman

Yakov Hadas-Handelsman has been the Ambassador of the State of Israel to Hungary since 2019. He was born on August 22, 1957, in Tel Aviv. After studying international relations and Middle Eastern studies in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and completing eight years of military service in the Israel Defense Forces, Hadas-Handelsman served as a diplomat in Ankara and Vienna between 1986 and 1991, and later in London. From 2003 to 2006, he was Israel’s ambassador to Jordan, later serving as Israel’s ambassador to the EU and NATO, and from 2011 to 2012, as ambassador to Germany.