List of Israeli ambassadors to Iran
This is a list of the heads of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Tehran . About 80,000 Jews lived in Persia under the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . Today the Jewish community with around 25,000 people is the largest in the Middle East outside of Israel .
To promote trade between the two countries, IRIS , an Iranian-Israeli trading company, was founded in 1953 , which was represented in Tehran by Zvi Duriel from 1956 to 1963 .
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| Appointment / accreditation | Surname | Remarks | appointed during the reign of | accredited during the government of | Leave post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Meir Ezrī | David Ben-Gurion | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 1973 | |
| 1973 | Uri Lubrani | Golda Meir | 1978 | ||
| 1978 | Yosef Harmelin | Menachem Begin | 1979 |