Embassy of Israel in Berlin | |
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Location | Schmargendorf, Berlin |
Address | Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 74, Berlin |
Coordinates | 52°29′01″N 13°17′20″E / 52.4836°N 13.2888°E |
Ambassador | Ron Prosor |
The Israeli Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the diplomatic mission of Israel in Germany. It is located in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf at Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 74.[1] Since August 22, 2022, the Israeli ambassador to Germany is Ron Prosor.[2]
There have been diplomatic relations between the state of Israel and West Germany since 1965. The first embassy, opened on August 24, 1965, was located in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district.[citation needed] The following year, the embassy was moved to the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn.[citation needed] With the relocation of the German seat of government after unification, the Israeli embassy was moved in August 1999 from Bonn to Berlin. Until then there had been an Israeli Consulate-General at Schinkelstraße 10 in the Grunewald district of West Berlin.[citation needed]
The current embassy building was built in the period 1999-2001.[3] It was designed by Israeli architect Orit Willenberg-Giladi. She is the daughter of the late Samuel Willenberg, the last known survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka revolt, and his wife Ada. In 2013 she was selected to design the Holocaust education center planned for the former site of Treblinka extermination camp.[4]
No. | Portrait | Ambassador of Israel to Germany | Took office | Left office | Ref. |
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1 | Asher Ben-Natan (1921–2014) | August 1965 | 1970 | [5][6] | |
2 | Eliashiv Ben-Horin (1921–1990) | 1970 | 1974 | [6][7] | |
3 | Yohanan Meroz (1920–2006) | 1974 | 1981 | [6][8] | |
3 | Itzhak Ben Ari (1924–2004) | 1981 | 1989 | [6][9] | |
4 | Binyamin Navon (born 1933) | 1989 | 1993 | [6] | |
5 | Avraham "Avi“ Primor (born 1933) | 1993 | 1999 | [6] | |
6 | Shimon Stein (born 1948) | 2001 | 2007 | [6][10] | |
7 | Yoram Ben-Zeev (born 1944) | 2007 | 2012 | [6][11] | |
8 | Yacov Hadas-Handelsman (born 1957) | 2012 | 2017 | [6][12] | |
9 | Jeremy Issacharoff (born 1955) | 2017 | 2022 | [6][13] | |
10 | Ron Prosor (born 1958) | 2022 | Incumbent | [6][14] |