title: Yaffa Ben-Ari
text: # Yaffa Ben-Ari
  
  Yaffa Ben-Ari is an Israeli diplomat who served as an Israeli Ambassador to Japan from November 2017 to October 2021. Before that, she was Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Head of the Economic Affairs Division. Ben-Ari was also Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia as well as Consulate General in San Francisco, California.
  
  She graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in political science, received an M.A. degree (with distinction) from the University of Haifa and an Executive M.B.A. degree from Bar-Ilan University.
  
  