Eliahu Ben-Elissar

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An honor guard of the Egyptian Navy receives Ambassador Eliahu Ben-Elissar in the port of Alexandria (1980)

Eliahu Ben-Elissar ( Hebrew אליהו בן אלישר; * August 2, 1932 in Radom , Poland as Eli Gottlieb ; † August 12, 2000 in Paris ) was an Israeli politician and diplomat.

Life

Eli Gottlieb was born in 1932 as the youngest of three children to a respected Radom family. In 1942, at the age of 10, Eli Gottlieb emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine together with the Radom family . Gottlieb used the entry permit from one of the family's sons, who had already been deported by the National Socialists . Gottlieb himself only found out about the fate of his family after the end of the Second World War. His father had died in a concentration camp , his mother in a traffic accident shortly after the end of the war. Only his two siblings had survived.

After arriving in the British Mandate, Eli Gottlieb attended a school in Tel Aviv and later joined the Irgun . He then served in the Israel Defense Forces until 1965 . He then studied at the University of Paris and received a Bachelor of Arts in social sciences, and later a Master of Arts in international law. At the University of Geneva he received his Ph.D.

After receiving his doctorate, Ben-Elissar worked as a journalist and also worked as a spokesman for the Cherut . In 1977 he was appointed Director General of the Prime Minister's Office. He held this office until 1980 when he was appointed the first Israeli ambassador to Egypt . In 1981 he left this office and was elected to the Knesset for the Likud . Ben-Elissar was re-elected four times. Four months after his last re-election in 1996, he stepped down to become ambassador to the United States. In 1998 he switched to the post of ambassador in France , which he held until August 2000. One week after his recall, he died on August 12, 2000 in Paris of cardiac arrest . At that time, Ben-Elissar was busy preparing for his return to Israel.

Fonts

  • La diplomatie du Ille Reich et les Juifs , Paris: Bourgois, 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Ben-Elissar, Eliahu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottlieb, Eli (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Radom , Poland
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2000
Place of death Paris