Asaf Shariv, Date of Birth

Asaf Shariv

Israeli diplomat

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1972

Profession: lawyer, diplomat, advocate, chief executive officer, manager, newspaper editor

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Asaf Shariv (Hebrew: ??? ????) (born April 6, 1972) has been Israel’s Consul General in New York since August 2007.
He is the youngest diplomat to date that has ever been designated this position.
Prior to his appointment, Shariv was the Director of Media and Public Affairs to Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon, where his responsibilities included supervising the Government’s Press Office and Advertising Bureau.
He was also the spokesman for various government agencies, such as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad), the Atomic Energy Committee, the National Security Committee and the Counter-Terrorism Unit. In 2002, when Shariv joined the Prime Minister’s Office as Senior Advisor to Ariel Sharon’s Chief-of-Staff, he sat on the Prime Minister’s committee that discussed strategic issues with the American government, and was instrumental in formalizing the MOU between Israel and the United States regarding the Road Map for Peace.
He was also a member of the special task force that dealt with issues such as the route of the security fence, the disengagement from Gaza and the U.S.
guarantees on Israeli bonds.