She previously served as Deputy Head of Mission at the Israeli Embassies in Italy and Jordan.

[1][2][3] Shortly after her appointment as ambassador to Ireland, Bar-Sadeh spoke out against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and criticised comments by author Sally Rooney who had declined an offer from an Israeli publisher to translate her novel Beautiful World, Where Are You into Hebrew, citing her support for the BDS movement.

Rooney had described Israel as an apartheid state, referring to a 2021 report by Human Rights Watch.

[4] In 2022, a senior Sinn Féin politician criticised Bar-Sadeh's presence at the St. Patrick's Day Festival in Limerick.

Senator Paul Gavan described her presence as a "disgraceful decision", and repeated his party's calls for the ambassador to be expelled from the state.