Yosef Tekoah

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Yosef Tekoah

Yosef Tekoah (born March 4, 1925 in Ljachawitschy as Yosef Tukaczynski , † April 14, 1991 in New York City ) was an Israeli diplomat.

Yosef Tekoah was born in 1925. In the 1930s, his family emigrated to Harbin , Manchuria and later to Shanghai , where they engaged in international trade. Tekoah studied law at the Université l'Aurore in Shanghai. After graduating there, he went to the United States to continue his studies at Harvard University . In 1948 he received his Masters in International Relations. Tekoah now went to Israel, where he began to work as a legal advisor in the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1949 . In 1953 he became the head of the Israeli delegation to the armistice negotiations with Egypt , Jordan , Syria and Lebanon and held this office for the next five years.

In the further course of his career he was a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations from 1958 . In 1960 he became ambassador to Brazil and was subsequently ambassador to the Soviet Union for three years from 1962 . He then worked for two years as Assistant Director General in the Israeli Foreign Ministry before finally becoming Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations from 1968 to 1975. In 1975 he returned to Israel to become President of Ben Gurion University in the Negev . In 1976 his autobiography In the Face of the Nations was published. In 1981 he was elected chancellor of the university. He held this position until his death in 1991. Tekoah, who had lived in Manhattan for a year to work on projects at his university, died of a heart attack in New York City .

Tekoah had been married to Ruth Tekoah since 1951 and had three children, a daughter and two sons. He was fluent in several languages, including English , French , Hebrew , and Russian . A street was named after him in the city of Beer Sheva .

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  1. ^ Goldstein, Jonathan: The Jews of China, Volume 2 (1999)
  2. Who's who in world Jewry (1965)