The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the State of Israel is the official representative of the
President and the
Government of the Russian Federation to the
Prime Minister and the
Government of Israel.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the
Embassy of Russia
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant ...
in
Tel Aviv. There is a
consulate general in
Haifa. The post of Russian Ambassador to Israel is currently held by , incumbent since 5 April 2018.
History of diplomatic relations
Diplomatic relations between the
Soviet Union and Israel were formalised in May 1948, not long after the
Israeli Declaration of Independence
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel ( he, הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 ( 5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive ...
. The first
envoy, , was appointed on 26 June 1948, and
presented his credentials on 17 August that year.
Diplomatic relations were briefly suspended by the Soviet government with Yershov's recall in February 1953, but were restored in July that year, and was appointed the new envoy in August.
Relations were further strengthened the following year with the conversion of the missions to the level of embassies.
In June 1967 the Soviet Union once more broke off relations, over the
Six-Day War.
For the next thirty years diplomatic relations were officially broken, until a thaw took place under the leadership of
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...
. A consular mission was established in August 1987, and on 30 September 1990 this resulted in the opening of consulates, and the appointment of a consul general.
On 3 January 1991 diplomatic relations were officially restored, and on 18 October 1991 the consulate general was upgraded to an embassy.
Alexander Bovin
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Bovin (russian: Александр Евгеньевич Бовин, 9 August 1930 – 29 April 2004) was a Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat, notable for being the first Soviet, and then Russ ...
was appointed as the new ambassador, and presented his credentials on 23 December 1991.
With the official
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
two days later, Bovin remained in post as representative of the
Russian Federation, serving until 1997.
List of representatives (1948 - present)
Representatives of the Soviet Union to Israel (1948 – 1991)
Representatives of the Russian Federation to Israel (1991 – present)
References
External links
Russian consulate in Israel{{Lists of ambassadors of Russia
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Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Israel
Israel
Russia