Yaffa Ben-Ari


Yaffa Ben-Ari is the Israeli Ambassador to Japan, effective November 2017. Before that, she was Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Head of the Economic Affairs Division. Ben-Ari was also Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia as well as Consulate General in San Francisco, California.
She graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in political science, received an M.A. degree from the University of Haifa and an Executive M.B.A. degree from Bar-Ilan University.