Hanan Aynor

Hanan Aynor (born October 20, 1916 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 15, 1993 in Jerusalem ), Hebrew חנן עינור, born as Hans Sonneborn , was a German- Israeli diplomat and author .

Life

Childhood, youth and family

He was born as a child of Hermann and Antonia Sonneborn, née Samuel, during the First World War in the German Empire . He left Germany in 1935 after he had been kicked out of a public school by the National Socialists before his Abitur because of his Jewish descent. After that he could have switched to a purely Jewish school in Frankfurt am Main or Germany, but decided to emigrate, and in this way saved his life. After an odyssey through Europe and the Mediterranean, Hans Sonneborn immigrated to the yishuv of the British mandate of Palestine in 1937 with the help of the child and youth alijah and changed its name. His parents were able to emigrate to the United States and last lived in Chicago , Illinois . Until 1939 Hanan Aynor witnessed the armed Arab uprising against the British mandate and the Zionist conquest, which was brutally suppressed.

He studied at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , but did not graduate with a degree. He lived in the kibbutz Ashdot Ja'akov in the Jordan Valley and in 1939 married the Polish-born teacher and school director Yaffa Puterman-Efrat (1912–2002), née Rodstein, with whom he had a child in 1941. The daughter of the two, Ayala Procaccia, was appointed judge at the Israeli Supreme Court in 2001. During the Second World War , Aynor served behind the front in the British Army and was deployed in France, which was occupied by the German Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, he met Sarah Skorohod, who worked there, in a French DP camp . In 1947 he separated from his wife and married Skorohod, with whom he had two children, Amos Tzvi and Yael Aynor. After the war, Hanan Aynor worked for the Mossad le Alija Bet of the Jewish Agency to bring survivors of the Shoah to the British Mandate of Palestine using what was then illegal. As an official interpreter, for example, he was deployed on the refugee ship Exodus from Europe in 1947 , when it was held for months in the port of Marseille .

career

After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Aynor was accepted into the diplomatic service of the Israeli Foreign Ministry . During the following four decades he served in the Foreign Ministry itself and in various countries on the three continents of Africa, North and South America.

• 1950: Assistant in the consular department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1950–1951: Assistant in the Western Europe Department at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1951–1954: Vice Consul in Montréal , Québec , Canada
• 1954: Head of the Consular Section in Montréal, Québec, Canada
• 1955–1958: First Secretary of the Israeli Embassy in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
• 1958–1959: First Assistant in the Department of Communication and Public Relations at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1959–1960: Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Technical Assistance (MASHAV) within the Communication and Public Relations department at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1960: Director of Communication and Public Relations at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1960–1961: Israeli delegate to the Democratic Republic of the Congo , based in Leopoldville
• 1961–1964: Israeli delegate to the United Nations General Assembly , New York City , USA
• 1964–1967: Ambassador to Senegal based in Dakar and non-resident ambassador to Gambia
• 1969–1971: Director of the Africa Department at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1971–1973: Ambassador to Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa
• 1974–1977: Ambassador to Mexico based in Mexico City
• 1977–1980: Director of the Africa Department at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem
• 1981–1982: Ambassador to Zaire , based in Kinshasa , where he worked from 1960 to 1961

Aynor has published books and numerous articles on African and Asian countries. In some cases he worked with the Israeli diplomat Shimon Avimor (1913-1994), who had also spent his school days in Frankfurt am Main.

Aynor was president of the Israeli-Ethiopian League for Friendship until his death from cancer at the age of 77. He felt very close to this African state and its people and dreamed of bringing the Jewish Ethiopians ( Falashas ) to Israel (see also: Operation Salomon , May 1991).

Works

• Notes from Africa , Frederick A. Praeger Verlag, New York City and London 1969
• with Shimon Avimor: Relations between Israel and Asian and African states. Treaties between Israel and Asian and African countries / Yaḥase Yiśraʼel ʻim medinot Asyah ṿe-Afriḳah . in English / French / Hebrew. Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1986
• with Shimon Avimor and No'am Kaminer: The role of the Israel labor movement in establishing relations with states in Africa and Asia / Terumat Tenuʻat ha-ʻavodah be-yiśum ḳishre ha-ḥuts shel Medinat Yiśraʼel be-Asyah uve-Afriḳah: teʻudot , in English and Hebrew, 1989
• Memoirs: Africa in Crisis - Patrice Lumumba's Congo, Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire . 1993
• further publications in Hebrew

Hanan Aynor Foundation

The Hanan Aynor Foundation (Keren Hanan Aynor, Hebrew קרן חנן עינור) was established by Aynor's wife Sarah after her husband's death in 1994. It is intended to enable talented and highly motivated Ethiopian Israelis to obtain a higher academic education or qualifications.

Video

• Keren Hanan Ayor . Presentation by the Hanan Ayor Foundation (Hebrew), 5:37 min. On: youtube.com, accessed on March 26, 2017

Web links

• Keren Hanan Ayor (Foundation website)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Behrend Sonneborn: A Celebration of Generations . Self-published 1994, pp. 124, 134, 311
2. ^ In Memoriam Hanan Aynor (1916-1993) . From: kerenaynor.org.il, accessed March 26, 2017
3. ^ Eleanor Mallet: Tevye's Grandchildren: Rediscovering a Jewish Identity . Pilgrim Press, 2004, p. 100
4. ↑ Ayala Procaccia , born 1941 . In: Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved March 26, 2017 from jwa.org
5. ^ In Memoriam Hanan Aynor (1916-1993) . From: kerenaynor.org.il, accessed March 26, 2017
6. ↑ Fifty Years of MASHAV Activity , Jewish Political Studies Review 21, pp. 3–4, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 2009, chapter The Beginning, second paragraph
7. ↑ Mordecai Artzi'eli: The Falashas: A Dying Community. The Weekness of Israel . Interview with an unnamed diplomat, clearly identifiable as Hanan Aynor through job description and specified time span. In: Haaretz , December 17, 1982
8. ^ Howard M. Lenhoff, Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews . Geffen Publishing House, 2007, ISBN 978-9652293657 . S. XV, 23, 30-33, 34, 36-37, 40, 161
9. ↑ Mitchel Geoffrey Bard: From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics Behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry . Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, USA 2002. ISBN 0-275-97000-0 , pp. 9, 15-16, 18, 22-23, 33, 38, 46-47, 55-56, 64, 80, 95 , 97, 103, 125, 144, 159, 169, 174
10. ^ Joel Peters: Israel and Africa: The problematic friendship . British Academic Press, London 1992, pp. XIII, 82
11. ^ In Memoriam Hanan Aynor (1916-1993) . From: kerenaynor.org.il, accessed March 26, 2017
12. ^ Relations between Israel and Asian and African states: a guide to selected documentation . Stanford University Libraries. From: stanford.edu, accessed March 26, 2017
13. ↑ Terumat Tenuʻat ha-ʻavodah be-yiśum ḳishre ha-ḥuts shel Medinat Yiśraʼel be-Asyah uve-Afriḳah: teʻudot . Stanford University Libraries, accessed March 26, 2017
14. ↑ Hagai Erlikh: The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile . Lynne Rienner Publishers 2002. p. 80
15. ↑ Keren Hanan Aynor (website of the foundation). From: kerenaynor.org.il, accessed March 26, 2017
16. ^ Eliezer David Jaffe: Sources for Funding: The Israel Foundation Directory . Devora Publishing 2001, p. 112