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'''Naomi Ben-Ami''' (born 1960) is an [[Israel]]i government official and the head of the liaison bureau [[Lishkat Hakesher]], also known as Nativ. Ben-Ami is the first woman to head the organization.

==Biography==
Naomi Ben-Ami was born in [[Chernivtsi]], [[Ukraine]], [[USSR]],  but because of her parents' work, she lived mostly in [[Kazakhstan]].  In September 1973 she and her family [[aliyah|immigrated]] to Israel, just weeks before the outbreak of the [[Yom Kippur War]].  After spending time at an [[ulpan]] in [[Dimona]], her parents took jobs as physicians in [[Jerusalem]].  Ben-Ami attended high school at [[Gymnasia Rehavia]].

After graduating she entered the [[Israel Defense Forces]], where she served in the [[Central Command (Israel)|Central Command]] as a secretary.  Ben-Ami then studied international relations and Russian studies at [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]].  

She has worked at the Israeli Foreign Ministry since 1983, including a posting at Israel's [[Moscow]] embassy as a political advisor. From 2003 to 2006 she was the Israeli ambassador to [[Ukraine]].<ref name=Haaretz>{{cite news |author=Yossi Melman |date=26 October 2006 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/israeli-ambassador-to-the-ukraine-appointed-head-of-nativ-1.203434 |title=Israeli ambassador to Ukraine appointed head of Nativ |work=[[Haaretz]] |accessdate=13 January 2013}}</ref> 

Ben-Ami is a married mother of two.<ref name=Haaretz/>

== See also ==
* Embassy of Israel in Kyiv

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite news|first=Anshel |last=Pfeffer |title=Out of the shadows |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011803.html |publisher=Haaretz |date=2008-08-21 |accessdate=2009-03-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904150655/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011803.html |archivedate=September 4, 2008 }}


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[[Category:Ambassadors of Israel to Ukraine]]
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