Michael Brodsky (diplomat)

Michael Brodsky was born on August 19, 1972 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1990,he made Aliyah to Israel together with his family. Michael Brodsky received a bachelor's degree in political science, and a master's degree in diplomacy and national security from Tel Aviv University. Michael Brodsky is married to Regina Shafir and has three children.[5]

Brodsky joined the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002. He served as press attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Moscow (2003-2008), political attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Moscow (2006-2008) and director of public affairs at the Israeli Embassy in London (2009-2013). From 2015 to 2018 he served as the Israeli Ambassador to Kazakhstan. In 2016 he coordinated the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Kazakhstan, the first such visit ever. In media interviews, Brodsky urged that the relations between the two countries would reach the level of strategic partnership. [6]

In 2015 he was nominated by the news website 'newsru.co.il'[7] for 'Hero of the Year' award, for being the first civil servant to reach the rank of ambassador from the 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah.[8]

He speaks Russian, Hebrew, English and German.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Brodsky published several articles on the effect the pandemic might have on international diplomacy,[9][10][11] and on the topic of medical diplomacy.[12][13]