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Abba Eban
Sign in to saveAlso known as Aba Eban, Abba Even, Abba Eben, Aubrey Solomon Meir, Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban, Aubrey Eban, Abba Solomon Meir Eban
Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002)
Key facts
- 1959 1960
- Minister without Portfolio
- 1960 1963
- Minister of Education & Culture
- 1963 1966
- Deputy Prime Minister
- 1966 1974
- Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1959 1965
- Mapai
- 1965 1968
- Alignment
- 1968 1969
- Labor Party
- 1969 1988
- Alignment
- 1949 1959
- Permanent Representative to the UN
- 1950 1959
- Ambassador to the United States
- Born
- ( 1915-02-02 ) 2 February 1915, Cape Town , South Africa
- Died
- 17 November 2002 (2002-11-17) (aged 87), Tel Aviv , Israel
- Spouse
- Shoshana Ambache
- Children
- Eli Eban
- Education
- Queens' College, Cambridge ( BA )
- Awards
- Israel Prize (2001)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Cape Town
- Place of death
- Tel Aviv
- Occupation
- historian
- Position held
- ambassador
- Political party
- Israeli Labor Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Israel Prize
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- AbbaEban1951.jpg
- Work location
- Weizmann Institute of Science
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- Commons category
- Abba Eban
- date of birth
- 1915-02-02
- date of death
- 2002-11-17
- nickname
- "הדיפלומט מספר אחת" של מדינת ישראל
- name in native language
- אבא אבן
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- Abba Eban
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Encyclopedic overview
Abba Solomon Meir Eban (/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. Eban famously remarked of the Palestinians, "The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
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