Mordechay Lewy

Mordechay Lewy (born 15 May 1948) is an Israeli diplomat who served as Israel's Ambassador to the Holy See between 12 May 2008 and 31 July 2012.

His nomination as Ambassador to the Holy See in May 2008 followed postings to Bonn, Stockholm and Berlin, where he served as the first Consul General after the Unification from 1991 to 1994.

Lewy is a published scholar on Jewish-Catholic/Israeli-Vatican relations and in history of pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

He initiated an international colloquium "Into the skin" on 5–6 December 2011, dedicated to this topic at the campus of the Urbaniana University affiliated to the Vatican.

After the end of his tenure to the Holy See, he applied for early retirement in order to pursue Doctoral research in the field of Medieval Cartography.