Judith Varnai-Shorer

Judith Varnai-Shorer is a retired Israeli diplomat who was the consul to Atlanta, Georgia from 2015 until 2019 and Ambassador to Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2000 until 2004.
The Israeli Consulates in the United States were being restructured during her tenure. She worked to keep the consulates open, in part due to anti-Semitism. Varnai-Shorer’s parents were Holocaust survivors from Hungary and her paternal grandfather changed their name from Weiss before World War I because of the anti-Semitism.