About the Australian Embassy in Israel 

Ambassador Paul Griffiths

Ambassador Paul Griffiths commenced as Australian Ambassador to Israel in September 2020. Mr Griffiths is a senior career officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). He has most recently worked in the private sector for US tech firm Palantir Technologies in London. Prior to that, from 2016-2019, he was Minister-Counsellor and head of the Political Branch at the Australian Embassy Washington.

Mr Griffiths has also worked overseas as head of the Political team in Jakarta (Australia’s largest embassy; 2009-2012), and in trade and economic positions in Manila (2002-2005) and Seoul (1996-1999).

In Canberra, Mr Griffiths’s other senior roles at DFAT have included head of Budget Branch and head of Secretariat of the Functional and Efficiency Review, and a number of South-East Asia policy roles, in particular Indonesia political and trade positions. He was the head of the Multilateral Development Branch at AusAID where he managed Australia’s commitments to multilateral development banks and UN organisations, and was Senior Advisor to the G20 and APEC Secretariat at The Treasury.

Mr Griffiths holds a Bachelor of Arts/Law from the University of Tasmania, a Masters in International Trade and Finance from Deakin University, and has completed executive leadership courses, including at Harvard University. He has achieved professional competency in Indonesian and Korean.

Mr Griffiths is keen to further build the Australia-Israel bilateral relationship during his term in Israel. He sees great scope to do more to link Australia to Israel's world-class start-up ecosystem – including through the Australian Government's Landing Pad, located in Tel Aviv's SOSA innovation hub.

 

 

 

Contact information

Address: 

Discount Bank Tower  (28th Floor)

23 Yehuda Halevi St   (Corner Herzl St)                       

Tel Aviv 6513601

Postal address: PO Box 29108 Tel Aviv 6129001

Tel:  +972 3 6935000. 

Email: [email protected]  

Opening hours

Mon -Thurs: 08:00 -12:30 and 13:00 -16:30 

Fri: 08:00 to 13:00 

Visa Section

Email for visa, immigration and citizenship matters: [email protected]

All Visa and Immigration enquiries via appointment only: Please refer to the Visa and Migration section of this website. 

 

 

Public Holidays 2021 -  The Embassy will be closed on:

 

• Friday 2 April                   Good Friday

• Monday 5 April               Easter Monday      

• Thursday 15 April          Independence Day                                                    

• Monday 17 May              Shavuot (Pentecost)                          

• Tuesday 7 Sep                1st Day of Rosh Hashana                   

• Wednesday 8 Sep         2nd Day of Rosh Hashana                                                         

• Thursday 16 Sep           Yom Kippur                     

• Tuesday 21 Sep            1st Day of Succot

• Tuesday 28 Sep            Shmini Atzeret

• Monday 27 Dec            Christmas Day (in lieu)

• Tuesday 28 Dec           Boxing Day (in lieu)

• Wednesday 29 Dec    Additional DFAT Holiday