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Abba Eban

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Also 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)

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Country
IL
Active from
1915-02-02
Active to
2002-11-17

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Quotes

  • History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  • I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
  • The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
  • If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

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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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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 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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