Education and Work Experience
After initial studies in Israel, Mazel attended Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (The Parisian Institute for Political Studies). There he met his wife, Michelle, a political scientist and writer. He graduated in 1963, later becoming a career diplomat making his first service in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He also served from 1980 in Cairo, Egypt, during the thaw period that ended with the 1982 Lebanon War. In 1989 he was posted as ambassdor to Rumania and witnessed the revolution which toppled Ceaucescu. In 1992 he was appoined Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry in charge of African affairs and was instrumental in reestablishing diplomatic relations between Israel and 19 African countries. In 1996 he returned to Egypt as an ambassador, and remained five years in that country. He also held the post as director of Eastern European division and head of the Egyptian and North African department at the Foreign Ministry back in Israel.
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