Ambassador Moshe Gilboa, the Diplomatic Representative of Israel to Greece was born in 1930 and was educated at Herzlia High school in Tel Aviv, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his studies, he was elected as National president of the Israel Students’ Union. He received the “Certificate of Proficiency” from Cambridge University, England.
Having been trained as a Commander in the Hagana, he served and fought in the Palmach during Israel’s War of Liberation 1948-1949. After the war he was a founding member of the board of settlement-Kibbutz Erez- where he lived for 7 years.
He joined the Israel Civil Service in 1959, when he was nominated as Aide and Head of Bureau of Minister Ababa Bean. Later, when David Ben Gurion was Prime Minister and Minister of Defence he served as Director of Special Aid to foreign Countries in the Ministry of Defence (1961-69). In this capacity, he was in charge of Planning, Coordinating and carrying out of Projects of Cooperation in 45 Countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. He also represented Israel at an International Conference on International Cooperation and was the last Israeli representative to meet the late President John F. Kennedy at a conference on developing counties in 1963, in Washington. In 1965, he served as David Ben-Gurion’s assistant in the newly-established Rafi Party.
He served as Consultant General of Israel in Atlanta for the south Eastern Region of the USA, during Jimmy Carter’s governship and was the Dean of the Consular Corps in Atlanta (1969-72). After completing his service there, he was nominated as advisor on International Affairs to Minister Shimon Peres (1972-73). In 1973 he was nominated as Israel’s Ambassador to Zambia. He was on loan to the Jewish Agency for 2 years, as director of Information of the World Zionist Organisation. Between 1966-67, he was nominated by the newly-formed “Israeli Voluntary Defence Fund” known as the “Entebe Fund”. In 1977, he was nominated as Israeli Minister at the Israeli Diplomatic Mission in Tehran, Iran, and served in this capacity until the Iranian revolution of 1979. Afterwards, he was nominated as Israel’s Consul-General to Chicago, for the 11 states of the Mid-Eastern region of the USA, and upon completion of his service there, was nominated as the Director of World Jewish Affairs Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. In 1983, he was appointed to the Directorship (Hanhala) of the Foreign Ministry and in 1986, he was promoted to Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He has published articles and essays, mainly on international, Middle Eastern and Jewish affairs in Israel and International periodicals, publications and newspapers, and was invited to lecture in various countries, communities and universities in the USA, Europe, Canada, Africa, and Australia. Mr. Gilboa is married and has two daughters.
