Mordecai Palzur

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Mordechai David Palzur (born 1929 in Tarnów , Poland ) is an Israeli diplomat .

Life

Mordechai Palzur was born in 1929 in the southern Polish city of Tarnów, where he grew up. His father Alexander Plutzer was a painter and art professor. When the attack on Poland in September 1939, the family had to flee from the German troops. Since she was not aware of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , she was astonished to find Soviet troops occupying eastern Poland after about two weeks . Palzur's father refused to accept Soviet citizenship; the family was then deported to a labor camp in Siberia . There she lived under very harsh conditions. In 1941 the Poles imprisoned in the camp were released and the family made their way to Tajikistan . Palzur's father joined the newly formed Anders Army , a Polish army in exile. This was relocated to Iran, with Palzur and his mother also following. In Tehran, the family came into contact with emissaries from the Jewish Agency for Israel , which organized emigration to the Mandate Palestine . In December 1943 the family arrived in Tel Aviv .

Mordechai Palzur studied law at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, a precursor to Tel Aviv University , and then law, international relations and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In the Israeli War of Independence he served as an officer from 1948 and was discharged from active military service in 1949 after being wounded.

In 1950, Palzur joined the Foreign Service and initially worked in the office and as a subordinate diplomat in Finland (1954–58) and Mexico (1961–64). In the Republic of South Africa (1969–71) and Cyprus (1971–74) he was employed as a counselor (equivalent to an embassy counselor ) and charge d'affaires . As ambassador he represented Israel in Bolivia (1975–78) and in the Dominican Republic , with other island states such as Antigua and Barbuda and Barbados also belonging to his area of ​​responsibility (1982–86).

After the Six Day War in 1967, the Warsaw Pact states broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. Palzur was posted to Poland in 1986 and was the first Israeli diplomat in a Warsaw Pact state after this break. However, it was not yet a question of full diplomatic relations; instead, so-called offices were opened to represent interests. When the Warsaw office was upgraded to embassy status in 1990, Palzur received the rank of Israeli ambassador to Poland. In the same year he returned to Israel, where he held the position of chief of protocol until 1994 . At the age of 65, he retired in 1995 with the rank of Career Ambassador . He then worked as a consultant for the Eisenberg Group for around two years.

Palzur is chairman of the World Jewish Congress Institute for Policy and Research , a subsidiary of the World Jewish Congress , and a member of the board of the non-governmental organization Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR).

Palzur speaks eight languages: his mother tongue Polish, Hebrew, English, German, Spanish, French, Russian and Yiddish. He is married to Juna Ginzburg. The couple have a son and a daughter.

Honors

Palzur was awarded medals by several foreign states for his diplomatic services, including the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland at the Grand Cross level . He has received several decorations from the Israel Defense Forces. The Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago in the Dominican Republic awarded him an honorary doctorate . The Hetman Jan Tarnowski Foundation awarded him the honorary title Tarnovia Merenti in 2003 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview: Tarnow, Tehran, Tel Aviv. In: www.juedische-allgemeine.de. November 8, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Poland. In: mfa.gov.il. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Israeli-Polish Relations. In: embassies.gov.il. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Russia expert outlines future role of Moscow in international affairs. In: www.worldjewishcongress.org. January 11, 2012, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Israel Council on Foreign Relations. In: www.israelcfr.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Wydział Komunikacji Społecznej: Już dzisiaj - spotkanie z pierwszym ambasadorem Izreala w Polsce. In: tarnow.pl. August 22, 2014, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ News from FORUM-znak-org.pl. In: polish-jewish-heritage.org. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Palzur, Mordecai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palzur, Mordechai David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnów