

The findings of the “Rzeczpospolita” show that the appointment of a fresh ambassador will take place in the summer. It is to be selected through a competition that has already been written down, says Israeli diplomatic sources, which the paper refers to.
Until then, the duties of charge d’affaires are to be assumed by Mrs Bosmat Baruch.
Yakov Live has served as ambassador since July 2022. He took the position after a period of degraded relations between Poland and Israel, which resulted, among others, from the Law introduced by the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law introduced by the Government, which imposed penalties on those who blamed Poland for their participation in the Holocaust.
Controversy over the Israeli Ambassador
There was no deficiency of controversy, however. About Israel's War against Hamas said in an interview with Onet that it was “a war of civilization with barbarism”. In harsh words, he criticized Poles showing support for “free Palestine”, comparing them to “Nazi Germany”. He questioned the “moral authority” of the European countries, and said of the tragedy of the people of Gaza that this was the consequence of “a cowardly policy of ignoring Hamas' murderous actions over the last 2 decades.”
After the attack on the humanitarian convoy, in which the Polish volunteer Jaakow Liwne died in a controversial conversation with Channel Zero avoided apology. He stated that “it was a mistake, specified things happen in war.”
Born in Moscow, raised in Israeli Haifa, the diplomat has a bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in global relations. He did his PhD on the relations between the USSR and the State of Israel in the first decade of its existence. He besides served in the Israel defence Forces. He knows 4 languages, and his diplomacy experience is 30 years of work at institutions in different countries. He started in 1994 as an attaché in the Russian Federation. Later, between 1999 and 2003, he was a councillor at the Israeli Embassy in Germany, and in 2019 he returned to Russia and was a temporary charge d’affaires embassy in Moscow for a year.