List of ambassadors of Israel to Peru

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Ambassador of Israel to Peru
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Incumbent
Eran Yuvan
since 2022
Inaugural holderTuvia Arazi
Formation1958
Website Embassy website

The ambassador of Israel to Peru is the official representative of the State of Israel to the Republic of Peru. [1] Since December 2011, the embassy is located in San Isidro District, Lima. [2]

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Israel and Peru officially established bilateral relations on January 1, 1958. [3] Prior to the establishment of any formal relations, an honorary consulate was inaugurated at the fourth floor of a building in La Colmena Avenue in late 1953, [4] [5] which was replaced by an embassy in Santa Beatriz that operated there until 2011. [2]

List of ambassadors

NameTerm beginTerm endHead of stateNotes
1 Tuvia Arazi  [ he ]19561960 David Ben-Gurion First formal representative to Peru.
2 Michael Simon 19601963
3 Netanel Lorch  [ he ]19631967 Levi Eshkol Also served as Ambassador on Special Mission in 1989. [6]
4 Moshe Yuval  [ he ]19671971
5Moshe Avidan19711975 Golda Meir
6 Michael Michael  [ he ]19751979 Yitzhak Rabin
7Gideon Tadmor19791986 Menachem Begin
8David Tourgeman19861988 Yitzhak Shamir
9Yuval Metzer1988 [7] 1994
10Joel Salpak1994 [8] 1998 Yitzhak Rabin Briefly taken hostage in late 1996.
11 Rafael Eldad 19982002 Benjamin Netanyahu
12Ori Noy20022005 Ariel Sharon
13Walid Mansour20052009
14Yoav Bar-On20092011 Benjamin Netanyahu
15 Modi Ephraim  [ he ]20112014The embassy moved in December 2011.
16Ehud Eitam20142016
17Raphael Singer20162018
18Asaf Ichilevich20182022
19Eran Yuvan2022Incumbent Yair Lapid

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References

  1. "Peru". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Relaciones Bilaterales". Ministry of Foreign Affairs . 2024-07-11.
  3. Israel Government Year Book. Central Office of Information, Prime Minister's Office. 1958. p. 259.
  4. Trahtemberg Siederer, León (1989). Vida judía en Lima y en las provincias del Perú: un recuento histórico documentado sobre la presencia judía en el territorio del Perú en el siglo XX (in Spanish). Unión Israelita del Perú. p. 57. Inauguración del Consulado de Israel. Ubicado en Colmena 323, Dpto. 407. (Lima 25-12-1953).
  5. Trahtemberg Siederer, León (1991). Participación del Perú en la partición de Palestina: historía documentada de la actuación peruana en relación a la partición de Palestina y a la creación del Estado de Israel (in Spanish). Colegio León Pinelo. p. 145. El 25 de Noviembre de 1953, se realizó la ceremonia de apertura de las oficinas del Consulado de Israel en Lima, en la calle Colmena 672, 4to. piso, izándose la bandera de Israel.
  6. Cronología de las relaciones internacionales del Perú (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Centro Peruano de Estudios Internacionales. 1989. p. 25. 3 de Agosto: El Presidente peruano, Alan García, recibió en su Despacho al Embajador de Israel en Misión Especial, Netanel Lorch. (El Peruano - Andina / El Comercio)
  7. Cronología de las relaciones internacionales del Perú (in Spanish). Centro Peruano de Estudios Internacionales. 1988. p. 36. 16 de Setiembre: El Presidente peruano, Alan García, recibió las cartas credenciales del Embajador de Israel en el Perú, Yuval Metzer, quien expresó el deseo de incrementar la cooperación bilateral entre dichos países. (El Peruano-ANDINA/El Comercio)
  8. Análisis internacional (in Spanish). Centro Peruano de Estudios Internacionales. 1994. p. 152. 12 de Septiembre: El nuevo Embajador de Israel en el Perú, Joel Salpak, presentó sus cartas credenciales al Presidente peruano, Alberto Fujimori [...]