While posted there, Naim worked closely with Kenyan leader Jomo Kenyatta, who later became the country's first president, and paved the way to fruitful relations between Kenya and Israel.
[3] Naim later served in Washington D.C. from 1968 to 1973 as an assistant to Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin and then as Consul General of Israel in Philadelphia from 1976 to 1981.
Following a stint back at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, he returned to the Israeli embassy in Washington in 1985 as information minister before assuming his responsibilities as Ambassador in Finland from 1988 to 1990, and then in Ethiopia from 1990 to 1991.
[6] Because of Naim's crucial role in Operation Solomon, he was awarded the highest recognition by Israel's President Chaim Herzog.
[8] Naim, along with mainly American philanthropists, founded the Keren Hanan Aynor Foundation, which provided scholarships to support young Ethiopians in Israel who wished to attend the country's colleges and graduate schools.