Ambassador
Galit Peleg – CV – ISRAEL
Ambassador Peleg is a career diplomat.
1998 joined the Israeli Foreign Service as a
cadet In.
1999-2000 deputy
Ambassador to Morocco In. From
2001-2005 Deputy
Ambassador to Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
2007-2011 Head of the liaison office to the
European Parliament at the Israeli Mission to the European Union in Brussels.
2011-2015 After returning to Jerusalem, she lead
special projects in the field of “branding Israel’ and worked with leading PR
firms in Europe, through her position at the Media and Public Affairs Division
at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. She initiated a campaign called “Start Tel
Aviv” to promote Israel as a Start Up Nation, in cooperation with the city of
Tel Aviv. This program, which brings entrepreneurs to Israel and turns
them into “Ambassadors for Israel,” continues today in more than 50 countries
around the world.
2016-2019 Head of the Department for Public
Diplomacy and Academic Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York, responsible
for reaching out to local communities and producing campaigns, events and
lectures, to promote Israel’s brand, in NY, NJ, PA, OH, and DE.
2019-2020 After
returning to Israel, she worked at the Balkans department.
2020-2021 Acted as
interim Consul General of Israel in Miami.
2021-2022 Director of overseas programs and
humanitarian aid at Israel's development Agency MASHAV. Since Feb 2022, in
addition to her roll she coordinated governmental humanitarian aid campaign to
Ukraine, organizing hundreds of tons of medicine and food and was involved in
the field hospital project in west Ukraine.
2022 Sep' – Ambassador
of Israel to Albania and non-resident to Bosnia Herzegovina.
She served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and,
after completing her military service, studied at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem where she graduated from two departments: Islam & Middle
East Studies and International Relations.
She is fluent in Hebrew, English, French, and conversant in Arabic and
Serbian.