Yael Rubinstein is an Israeli diplomat. She was Israel's Ambassador to Singapore in 2013-2017, after serving as Ambassador to Thailand and Cambodia.[1]
Yael Rubinstein earned a BA in Economics and International relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1882, and an MA in Economics in 1983.[2]In 2011, she completed an MA in Political Science at Haifa University.
She is married to Dan Sherman, a gynecologist and obstetrician.[3]
In 2003, Rubinstein served as Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary (non-resident) of Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia while concurrently serving at the Central Europe Department in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] In 2005-2009, Rubinstein served as Ambassador of Israel to Thailand and Cambodia.[4]In 2008, Rubinstein organized the first performance in Thailand of Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.[5]
At the Cybertech Singapore conference in February 2017, Ambassador Rubinstein presided over an extensive cyber cooperation agreement between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.[6]