Michael Elizur

Michael Elizur (born April 26, 1921 in Leipzig , † December 27, 2003 in Australia ) was an Israeli diplomat.

Michael Elizur was born in Leipzig in 1921 to Jewish parents. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933 , he emigrated to the British mandate of Palestine . May 1948 Elizur joined the diplomatic service. In the 37 years of his career he has worked in London , New York City and Rangoon , among others . He held his first ambassadorial post in Canberra , where he oversaw diplomatic relations with Fiji , Tonga , Samoa and Papua New Guinea as a non-resident Israeli ambassador .

After his return to Israel, he became head of the United Nations Department of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem . From 1984 to 1986 Elizur was Ambassador to Austria, succeeding Issachar Ben-Yaacov . During this time he represented Israel at the United Nations in Vienna . As a result of the Waldheim affair , he was recalled to Israel in 1986, but returned to Vienna for the time being after Waldheim took office. In interviews, he had warned against a premature overreaction in the Waldheim affair and thus became the target of several press attacks. He retired in October 1986, and Gideon Yarden acted as interim chargé d'affaires for the Israeli embassy in Vienna from 1986 to 1990 . In December 2003, Elizur died after a brief serious illness while visiting family in Australia.

Web links

• Obituary (PDF file; 464 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.juedischesleipzig.de (PDF document). (PDF; 1.8 MB) Retrieved May 25, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Otto Pleinert : Israel's view of Austria . In: Oliver Rathkolb et al. (Ed.): Seen with different eyes. International perceptions of Austria 1955–1990. Austrian national history after 1945. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99105-2 , pp. 785–787.

predecessor	Office	successor
?	Israeli ambassador to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Papua New Guinea ?	?
Issachar Ben-Yaacov	Israeli ambassador to Austria and to the UN in Vienna 1984–1986	Gideon Yarden ( Chargé d'affaires ad interim; 1993: Yosef Govrin )