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WAMC's In Conversation with...
Nadav Tamir
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Nadav Tamir is Consul General of Israel to New England. Consul General Nadav Tamir was born and raised in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel. He began his career of public service in 1980 in the IDF, where he eventually served as a company commander and retired with the rank of Major.
Consul General Tamir joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 and the following year began to serve as the Policy Assistant to the Foreign Minister, for whom he developed recommendations and policy programs and followed up with the execution of ministerial directives and initiatives. Consul General Tamir was fortunate to serve under Foreign Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, and David Levy. In 1997, he was promoted to the position of Political Officer at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., where he worked closely with the State Department and the National Security Council. Finally in 2001, he was granted the position of Advisor to the Director General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, where he currently works, specializing in Israeli-U.S. relations and the promotion and development of institutional reform.
In 2004, Consul General Tamir earned his Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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