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officials said. He was 87.
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relations. Yitzhak Herzog, a
:phew who served as Israeli
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defense and foreign affairs.”
The tall, heavy-jowled Eban
oke 10 languages with an
ademic bearing and was usu-
ly seen in public in three-
piece suits, contrasting with
open-shirted, sunburned
Israeli pioneers, many of them
ex-military commanders, who
the country through its
rst half-century. Widely
mired abroad, Eban never
ally took off at home,
ending his last years in the
blitical wilderness.
I Bom in South Africa on Feb.
2. 1915, Eban grew up in
ngland, attaining honors at
ambridge University, where
he honed his oratory as a leader
of the Cambridge Union, the
iniversity debating society.
His value to the emerging
wish state as a diplomat was
cognized quickly.
David Ben Gurion, Israel’s
first prime minister, once called
ban “the voice of the Hebrew
ation.”
He was only 31 when he
fr/as named ambassador to the
United Nations, charged with
the task of convincing two-
thirds of the members to parti
tion Palestine and allow cre
ation of a Jewish state. On Nov.
29, 1947, the U.N. General
Assembly approved partition
by a narrow margin.
Eban soon added another
title — ambassador to the
United States — and he is still
the only Israeli to have held
both positions at the same time.
He served as Israel’s foreign
minister from 1966 to 1974,
one of the most turbulent peri
ods in the nation’s history.
He used his rhetorical pow
ers to try to persuade a skepti
cal world that Israel was acting
properly in seizing the West
Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Desert,
Golan Heights and eastern
Jerusalem in the 1967 war.
A dove at heart, Eban was
often at odds with Israeli
leaders. He believed Israel
should negotiate peace in
exchange for the territories it
captured, while successive
governments built Jewish set
tlements there instead.
Criticizing a hardline gov
ernment for refusing to give up
territory, he said that Israel was
“tearing up its own birth cer
tificate. Israel’s birth is intrin
sically and intimately linked
with the idea of sharing territo
ry and sovereignty.”
Yet he was just as critical of
the Arab leadership. He once
said that the Arabs “never
missed an opportunity to miss
an opportunity” to make peace
with Israel.
In 1973, with his country
facing possible defeat in
another war, he helped per
suade the U.S. administra
tion of President Richard
Nixon to carry out an emer
gency airlift of weapons and
supplies to Israel.
His British accent and seem
ingly limitless vocabulary
enthralled listeners in the halls
of diplomacy, but he was con-
Israeli diplomatic
pioneer dies at 87
Abba Eban, an
Israeli diplomat
best known for his
explanation of
Israel policies in
world gatherings
and interviews,
died Sunday. No
immediate cause
of death was given
Eban
Highlights
► Eban was bom in South Africa on
Feb. 2, 1915.
► He grew up In England, attaining
honors at Cambridge University,
where he honed his oratory as a
leader of the Cambridge Union. He
was fluent In 10 languages.
► Eban was only 31 when he was
named ambassador to the United
Nations.
► On Nov. 29, 1947, he helped
convince the United Nations to
approve creation of a Jewish state.
► He became ambassador to the
United States and is still the only
Israeli to have held both positions
at the same time.
► He served as Israel’s foreign
minister from 1966 to 1974. His term
spanned two wars and their
aftermath.
► After losing his place in the Labor
Party parliament faction in 1988, he
turned to lecturing, public
appearances and writing.
► In 2001. he was awarded Israel s
highest accolade, the Israel Prize.
► He is survived by his wife, Suzy,
son, Eli, and daughter, Gila.
SOURCE: Associated Press
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sidered pompous and distant at
home, where his elegant
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above the people.
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dent in tics like a leg that
twitched behind a podium as he
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