Benjamin Navon

Benjamin Navon (born July 23, 1933 in Chernivtsi , Romania ( today: Ukraine ) as Benjamin Weiser ) is an Israeli diplomat .

During the Second World War , Weiser and his family were placed in a ghetto . In 1944 the family fled to Bucharest . In 1945 Benjamin Weiser and his parents came to the British Mandate of Palestine . There he attended a high school in Haifa . He then served in the Israeli army and then studied economics and sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

In 1962 he joined the diplomatic service. To do this, Weiser had to get a Hebrew name, which he was reluctant to do as the only survivor of his family at the time. In the same year he moved with his wife to New York City , where he served as Vice Consul. Two years later he became an attaché at the Israeli embassy in Tehran . After several years as spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, Navon was envoy at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC from 1976 to 1978. From 1978 to 1983 he was consul general in Los Angeles . He spent the next five years in Israel. In 1988 Navon became the Israeli ambassador to Germany . In 1993 Avi Primor replaced him in this position.

After leaving the diplomatic service, he worked for Daimler-Benz in Israel.

Benjamin Navon is married to the sculptor Dora Navon (* 1937) and has three sons.

Web links

• Short biography Ambassador Benjamin Navon