Meet Yosef Livne, the new Israeli ambassador to New Zealand. The 64-yr-old career diplomat’s family has deep roots in Israel with one of his grandfathers being a founding member of the Rosh Pina community and the other helping to establish Ramat Gan. Yosef Livne The young Livne began his diplomatic career in 1979 as a member of the Israeli delegation to United Nations before moving the following year to Mexico where he worked as second secretary in the embassy, followed by a three year hiatus working at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. Yosef Livne’s fluency in Portuguese and Spanish was to serve him in good stead when he was posted to the embassy in Chile in 1985 and then Brazil in 1987 before returning to Jerusalem for another stint at the MFA in 1990. He was appointed ambassador to El Salvador and Belize where he served between 1993 and 1997 followed by another two years in Jerusalem before being appointed to the prestigious position of Deputy Consul-General in New York. In 2001, Yosef Livne returned to his position in El Salvador returning to Jerusalem in 2004. In 2006, he was appointed ambassador to Mexico and the Bahamas, a [...]
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