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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)
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Abba Eban was an Israeli author and public figure, born on February 2, 1915, and died on November 17, 2002. His literary output includes seventeen works, among which are *My people the story of the Jews*, *The Holocaust*, *Hannah Senesh Her Life & Diary*, *MIJN VOLK*, and *Diary of a Country Prosecutor*. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Israel Prize collection.
Eban’s writings have been referenced by 320 other encyclopedia articles. His recorded quotes include observations on history and the behavior of nations, such as “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives” and “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- My people the story of the Jews
- The Holocaust
- Hannah Senesh Her Life & Diary
- MIJN VOLK
- Diary of a Country Prosecutor
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 62
\\\\\\\\\\\abbaebanband.tumblr.com/////////// Abba Eban came into existence as SUNY Purchase students Raymond Chalmé and David Grimaldi began playing music together in the Dino Room at the Stood. They currently are working on their debut EP, which, factoring in the individual tastes of each artist, will probably encompass pop/psych/chillwave/punk/drone. Hopefully, the chillwave keeps itself to a minimum, though the boys aren't making any guarantees. Stay tuned, friends. <a href="https://www.la
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Adaptive linear step-up procedures that control the false discovery rate
· 2006 · cited 2,845x
- A potent and selective endogenous agonist for the µ-opiate receptor
· 1997 · cited 1,152x
- Transport of brain-derived neurotrophic factor across the blood–brain barrier
· 1998 · cited 1,103x
- Leptin enters the brain by a saturable system independent of insulin
· 1996 · cited 961x
- Asymptotically stable walking for biped robots: analysis via systems with impulse effects
· 2001 · cited 824x
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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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- P10632
- Abba Eban
Sources (7)
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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."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abba Eban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.