Azar was born in
Argentina in 1967, and migrated to
Jerusalem with his family at age 13. He served in a
Paratroopers Brigade of the
IDF from 1985 to 1988. Azar was Deputy Chief of Mission for the
Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. between 2014 and 2018. After serving in Washington he returned to Israel and served as deputy adviser for national security and foreign policy with the
National Security Council and a foreign policy adviser for the
prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. and assumed office in August 2022. Azar met
George Simion, head of the far-right
Alliance for the Union of Romanians, an act that drew criticism from the
Yad Vashem Holocaust center. On 17 December 2023, the
Israeli government approved the appointment of Azar as the new Ambassador to India, and the non-resident Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Bhutan. On 6 September 2024, he along with ambassadors of four other nations presented their credentials to
President of India Droupadi Murmu. ==References==