Pnina Duke

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Pnina Herzog (born 1925 or 1926; died January 21, 2005 ) was an Israeli pharmacist and health officer.

She was the daughter of Zalman and Frieda Shachor, who lived in Palestine as early as the 1940s. In 1946 Pnina Herzog graduated from high school and went to Manchester to study pharmacy there. She later studied in Ottawa and Washington, DC

On February 14, 1952, she married Ja'akov Herzog , whom she had known since childhood ; his father Rabbi Isaak HaLevy Herzog performed the ceremony. Her husband was a diplomat and between 1960 and 1963 Israel's ambassador to Canada and brokered a secret agreement between Jordan and Israel in the 1970s because he had good relations with the Jordanian King Hussein . Ja'akov and Pnina Herzog had three children together: Shira (born 1953) and Eliezra (1955) and Yitzhak (1967). Her husband died in 1972. His brother and her brother-in-law were Chaim Herzog , Israeli Prime Minister between 1983 and 1993, and one nephew is the politician Yitzchak Herzog .

She was employed in the Israeli Ministry of Health from 1964, first as a pharmacist for drug registration, later in drug supervision and as acting head of department. From 1985 to 1995 she was Assistant Deputy Minister, Head of International Relations at the Ministry, making numerous international contacts, especially in the World Health Organization (WHO), where she sat on advisory bodies from 1983 and on the Executive Board from 1993, and became Vice-Chair in 1994 has been. As a civil servant in the Ministry of Health, she also led detailed negotiations at the peace delegations between Israel and Jordan. She also represented Israel at international health and women's affairs conferences. In October 1994 she was the guest of honor at the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel.

She was also committed to women's rights and was Vice President of the International Women's Council between 1988 and 1994 , where, after a break due to her WHO work, she then served as President from 1997 to 2003 for two terms.

Her hobbies were painting and playing the piano.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Entry in the necrology of The Globe and Mail , Toronto 2005
  2. ↑ Michael Bar-Zohar: Yaacov Herzog. A biography. Halban Publishers 2005. ISBN 978-1870015-93-6 . Digitized
  3. ↑ a b c d Elisabeth Sleeman: The International Who's Who of Women 2002 . ISBN 1-85743-122-7 .
  4. ↑ Laura Blumenfeld: Is dad fishing? . In: Die Zeit , August 5, 1994
  5. ↑ Israel Today, January 23, 2005: [1]
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Pnina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shachor, Pnina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli pharmacist and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH around 1928
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2005