Story of Ambassador Yossi Levy

Personal Stories: Ambassador Yossi Avni-Levy

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    Ambassador Yossi Avni-Levy is an Israeli writer and diplomat. He has served in various positions in Israeli embassies in Berlin, Bonn, Belgrade, and Warsaw. He is Israel’s ambassador to Lithuania. From 2011 until 2016, he was Ambassador to Serbia.

     

    Ambassador Yossi-Levy was born to an Afghan Jewish father and to an Iranian Jewish mother. He graduated with honors from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in history of the Middle East and Arabic in 1983 and later became a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel.

     

    He shares his story and connection to Afghanistan and of his family as the last few Jews in Afghanistan.

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