Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov is the director general of the Israeli ministry of health.

Prior to the current position, he served as Israel’s Economic Attache to the United States, Based in Washington, DC.

Mr. Bar-Siman-Tov served 11 years in the Budget-Division at the Israeli Ministry of Finance. In his last role at the budget division, Mr. Bar-Siman-Tov was the senior Deputy Director at the Budget Division, Responsible for the social expenditure in the Israeli national budget, including healthcare, education, employment & the welfare system. The role consisted of building the national budget, as long as promoting reforms and structural changes in these fields.

Moshe has both a master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics and business administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Moshe is married, has four children and lives in Jerusalem.