Judith Varnai-Shorer
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Judith Varnai-Shorer is a retired[1] Israeli diplomat who was the consul to Atlanta, Georgia from 2015 until 2019[2] and Ambassador to Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2000 until 2004.[3][4]
The Israeli Consulates in the United States were being restructured during her tenure (for example, the office in Philadelphia was closed). She worked to keep the consulates open, in part due to anti-Semitism. Varnai-Shorer’s parents were Holocaust survivors from Hungary and her paternal grandfather changed their name from Weiss before World War I because of the anti-Semitism.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Williams, Trevor (15 August 2019). "Emerging From Uncertainty, Atlanta's Israeli Consulate Looks to Future". Global Atlanta. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "United States of America". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ "Hungary". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ Jacobs, Michael (September 16, 2015). "New Israeli Consul Skipped Shanghai for America". Atlanta Jewish Times. Retrieved 24 July 2020.