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Naomi Ben-Ami was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, but because of her parents" work, she lived mostly in Kazakhstan.
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Ben-Ami is the first woman to head the organization. In September 1973 she and her family immigrated to Israel, just weeks before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Ben-Ami attended high school at Gymnasia Rehavia.
After graduating she entered the Israel Defense Forces, where she served in the 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. Ben-Ami is a married mother of two.
