Shlomo Ben Ami

Shlomo Ben Ami

Schlomo Ben Ami (Shlomo Ben Ami, Hebrew שלמה בן עמי; ) (Born July 17, 1943 in Tangier , Morocco ) is an Israeli historian , diplomat, and politician of Moroccan descent. He was Israel's 15th Foreign Minister .

Life

Schlomo Ben Ami was born in Tangier into a Sephardic family. He immigrated to Israel in 1955. He studied at Tel Aviv University , where he also taught and researched as a professor from 1982 to 1986, and at Oxford University . His first major post was that of the Israeli ambassador to Spain from 1987 to 1991. He then went into politics and was elected to the Knesset in 1996 .

When the Labor Party under Ehud Barak in July 1999 came to power, was Ben Ami Minister of Public Security. In August 2000, after David Levy's resignation , he first became Israeli Foreign Minister and in November 2000 he officially succeeded him. As acting foreign minister he negotiated with the Palestinians, but at the same time was held responsible by the Or Commission for the October 2000 uprisings in which Arabs were killed by the Israeli police . Nevertheless, he is not considered a hardliner in Arab-Israeli relations. During the Barak government, he was Shimon Peres ' political rival .

Ben Ami remained Minister for Foreign Affairs and Security until March 2001. But he refused to join Ariel Sharon’s government and therefore resigned from the Labor Party. He then wrote highly regarded books on the Middle East conflict . He is an active member of the Club of Rome and Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace (CITpax) , a non-profit organization whose aim is to contribute to conflict prevention and resolution as well as to peace building. He is married and has three children.

Fonts

• The origins of the Second Republic in Spain. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1978, ISBN 0-19-821871-0 .
• Facism from above. The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923-1930. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-19-822596-2 .
• La Revolución Desde Arriba: España 1936–1979. Ríopiedras Ediciones, Zaragoza 1980, ISBN 84-7213-094-2 . (Spanish)
• with Nissim Mishal: Those were the generations ... 2000. Jewish history. Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv 2000, ISBN 965-448-745-4 .
• Scars of War, Wounds of Peace. The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2005, ISBN 0-297-84883-6 .
• Quel avenir pour Israel? Interview with Yves Charles Zarka, Jeffrey Andrew Barash and Elhanan Yakira. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-13-052089-8 (French).

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