Ehud Avriel
Ehud Avriel ( Hebrew אהוד אבריאל, * 1917 as Georg Überall in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † August 27, 1980 in Tel Aviv ) was an Austrian Zionist , Israeli diplomat and politician ( Mapai ).
Life
Georg Überall grew up in Vienna and attended high school . He joined the Jewish youth movement Blau-Weiß in Vienna . There he was committed to the Aliyah and was office manager of the children and youth Aliyah from 1938 to 1940 , until he himself emigrated to Palestine in 1940 . There he joined the Hagana and continued to work for the rescue of European Jews during World War II . To this end, he was active on the rescue committee in Istanbul from 1943 to 1944 , Teddy Kollek was a colleague in Istanbul .
After the end of the war, he was one of the most important people in Alija Bet and, together with other Jews from Germany , Austria and Czechoslovakia , founded the Kibbutz Neot Mordechai in November 1946 .
Avriel was from 1948 the plenipotentiary envoy of Israel in Czechoslovakia and Hungary , from 1950 in Romania .
In early 1948 Avriel was commissioned by David Ben Gurion to buy weapons in Europe . After unsuccessful efforts to buy on the black market , he entered into direct negotiations with the Zbrojovka arms factory in Brno through the mediation of Adam-Robert Avramowitsch . Avriel procured weapons and military equipment worth 750,000 dollars , organized the transport to the Yugoslav port city of Šibenik and the Nora for the transport of the weapons to Erez Israel.
On August 15, 1955, he moved into the 3rd Knesset for the Mapai Labor Party , where he was a member of the Education and Culture Committee and the Foreign and Defense Committee until he left on July 31, 1957. After that he was Israel's ambassador to Ghana , Congo and Liberia until 1960 . In 1961 he moved to the Israeli Foreign Ministry and was deputy general director until 1965. From 1965 to 1968 he was the Israeli ambassador to Italy . In 1968 he was elected chairman of the Zionist Executive Committee. From 1974 Avriel was Consul General in Chicago , from 1977 Ambassador for Special Affairs. In 1979 Avriel retired from politics.
Publications
- Open the gates! The dramatic personal story of "illegal" immigration to Israel (1976)
Web links
- Ehud Aviel at Knesset.gov.il
- Ehud Avriel at Wertheimer.info
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Avriel, Ehud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Everywhere, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1980 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |