Abba Eban

Abba Eban
Ministerial roles
1959–1960Minister without Portfolio
1960–1963Minister of Education & Culture
1963–1966Deputy Prime Minister
1966–1974Minister of Foreign Affairs
Faction represented in the Knesset
1959–1965Mapai
1965–1968Alignment
1968–1969Labor Party
1969–1988Alignment
Diplomatic roles
1949–1959Permanent Representative to the UN
1950–1959Ambassador to the United States
Personal details
Born(1915-02-02)2 February 1915
Cape Town, South Africa
Died17 November 2002(2002-11-17) (aged 87)
Tel Aviv, Israel
SpouseShoshana Eban (née Herzog)
ChildrenEli Eban
Alma materQueens' College, Cambridge
Signature
Israeli UN delegation: (L–R) consul general A. Lourie; counsellor J. Robinson; Eban; Avraham Katznelson; Gideon Rafael (1950)
(L–R) U.S. President Truman, Eban, and Israeli PM Ben-Gurion (1951)
Israeli PM Ben-Gurion (center) giving U.S. President Truman a Hanukkah menorah in 1951 when Eban (right) was Israel's ambassador to the U.S.

Abba Solomon Meir Eban[1] (/ˈɑːbə ˈiːbən/ ⓘ; Hebrew: אבא שלמה אבן [ˈ(ʔ)aba ˈ(ʔ)even]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also vice president of the United Nations General Assembly and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

  1. ^ "Abba Eban: Israeli statesman." Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 January 2016.