[1] Oded was a Research Fellow at the Abba Eban Centre for Israeli Diplomacy of the Hebrew University's Truman Institute in Jerusalem.
[4][citation needed] After finishing his MA studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1957, Oded entered Israel's Foreign Ministry.
[9] After the fall of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1979, the Israeli Foreign Ministry asked Oded, who was at the time Israel's ambassador to Kenya, to travel to Uganda to look for the remains of Mrs. Dora Bloch who had been on the plane hijacked by terrorists and forced to land in Entebbe airport in 1976 and who had been murdered while in Mulago Hospital in Kampala by Amin's soldiers and buried secretly in an unknown location.
[10] In year 1995, Oded retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and became Senior Lecturer in African Studies at the Universities of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.
Dr. Oded had written numerous books and research articles on Africa-Israel relations, Islam, Judaism in Africa and the Swahili language.