Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile: H.E. Ephraim Ben Matityau

Ambassador Effie (Ephraim) Ben Matityau is a veteran of Israel’s Foreign Service and a graduate of its Diplomatic School from 1981. In his early years with MoFA, he served as a member of the Peace and Normalization team with Egypt. In 1983, he assumed his first position abroad as the Deputy Consul General in Toronto, Canada, in charge of Press, Culture and Information. Following Toronto, he served in a variety of positions overseas among them Deputy Ambassador in Nicosia-Cyprus )1985-1988) where he received the 1986 merit award of the Ministry, Director of Israel’s Academic Affairs Office to the USA based in New York (1991-1996), Consul General of Israel to East Australia based in Sydney )1999-2002), Acting Ambassador in Copenhagen (2004), and Ambassador of Israel to Vietnamn and Laos (2005-2009), Acting Ambassador to Eithiopia (Summer 2013) and from the 1st of August 2014 as Ambassador to the Philippines.

While at home in Jerusalem, he held different positions, among them, Head of the Canadian Affairs and North American missions for Public Dip[lomacy, Spokesman and a Deputy Director of the Press Division, Head of the Overseas Development Projects and Public Private Partneship Bureau for MASAHV- Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation.

Ambassador Ben Matityau holds a BA degree in Political Science and International relations and a Master’s in Business Administration. He served as an infantry officer in the IDF, on active duty during the October War of 1973 and Lebanon of 1982.

He has 3 wonderful kids, 2 Daughters – Marian and Nophar and a Son – Omer. His Spouse is Ambassador ® Lizia Z. Lu, former Ambassador of Panama to Vietnam.