List of ambassadors of Israel to Peru

The ambassador of Israel to Peru is the official representative of the State of Israel to the Republic of Peru.^[1] Since December 2011, the embassy is located in San Isidro District, Lima.^[2][3]

Ambassador of Israel to Peru
Incumbent Eran Yuvan since 2022
Inaugural holder	Tuvia Arazi
Formation	1958
Website	Embassy website

Israel and Peru officially established bilateral relations on January 1, 1958.^[4] Prior to the establishment of any formal relations, an honorary consulate was inaugurated at the fourth floor of a building in La Colmena Avenue in late 1953,^[5][6] which was replaced by an embassy in Santa Beatriz that operated at the sixth floor of a building there until 2011.^[2]

List of ambassadors

№	Name	Term begin	Term end	Head of state	Notes
1	Tuvia Arazi [he]	1956	1960	David Ben-Gurion	First formal representative to Peru.
2	Michael Simon	1960	1963
3	Netanel Lorch [he]	1963	1967	Levi Eshkol	Also served as Ambassador on Special Mission in 1989.[7]
4	Moshe Yuval [he]	1967	1971
5	Moshe Avidan	1971	1975	Golda Meir
6	Michael Michael [he]	1975	1979	Yitzhak Rabin
7	Gideon Tadmor	1979	1986	Menachem Begin
8	David Tourgeman	1986	1988	Yitzhak Shamir
9	Yuval Metzer	1988[8]	1994
10	Joel Salpak	1994[9]	1998	Yitzhak Rabin	Briefly taken hostage in late 1996.
11	Rafael Eldad	1998	2002	Benjamin Netanyahu
12	Ori Noy	2002	2005	Ariel Sharon
13	Walid Mansour	2005	2009
14	Yoav Bar-On	2009	2011	Benjamin Netanyahu
15	Modi Ephraim [he]	2011	2014		The embassy moved in December 2011.
16	Ehud Eitam	2014	2016
17	Raphael Singer	2016	2018
18	Asaf Ichilevich	2018	2022
19	Eran Yuvan	2022	Incumbent	Yair Lapid

See also

• Israel–Peru relations
• List of ambassadors of Peru to Israel