Shemi Tzur
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Shemi Tzur (Hebrew: שמי צור; born January 21, 1945)[1] is a retired Israeli ambassador who has had ambassadorships in Cyprus (1993–2000),[2] New Zealand (2010–2013),[3] Turkmenistan (2013–2015)[4] (one source says he was “Israel's first-ever ambassador to Turkmenistan” even though the Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists two earlier non resident ambassadors),[5] Finland (2003–2007),[6] and Estonia.[7] He has also been Consul at the Consulate General of Israel in Sydney, Acting Ambassador to Fiji and Chargé d'affaires ad interim, Acting Ambassador to Angola and Mozambique, Ambassador Non-resident to Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tonga, Samoa and Cook Islands and “opened the Embassy of Israel in Uzbekistan and was instrumental in the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.“[8][9]
From 1968 until 1971, he studied Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]