Ilan Mor

Ilan Mor is the Ambassador of Israel to Croatia. He was also Ambassador to Hungary between 2011 and 2016.^[1]

His Excellency Ilan Mor
Israeli Ambassador to Croatia
In office 2018 (2018) – 2022
Preceded by	Zina Kleitman
Israeli Ambassador to Hungary
In office 2011 (2011) – 2016
Preceded by	Aliza Bin-Noun
Succeeded by	Yossi Amrani
Personal details
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University
Occupation	Ambassador

Ilan Mor

Mor earned a B.A. in Political Science and Working Relations and an M.A. in International Relations both from Tel Aviv University.^[1]

Returned Táncsics award

On March 14, 2013, the Hungarian Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog awarded Ferenc Szaniszló the Táncsics award, Hungary's highest state award for journalism.^[2][3][4][5] A dozen former recipients of the Táncsics returned their awards in protest, due to Szaniszló's history of controversy including a 2011 incident which resulted in a government fine over, according to The Independent, "anti-Semitic outbursts and his detrimental remarks about the country’s ostracised Roma minority," including calling Roma "human monkeys"^[5] and suggesting he regarded Jews as garbage.^[6]

Szaniszló's receipt of the award was not only criticized by Mor but also the Hungarian and international media and by U.S. ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis.^[5][7]

Personal life

Mor was born in Israel but his parents came from Romania and Poland. They survived the Holocaust but numerous relatives were murdered in Auschwitz.^[8]