Ehud Avriel
Ehud Avriel | |
|---|---|
| File:Ehud Avriel.jpg | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1955–1957 | Mapai |
| Diplomatic roles | |
| 1957–1960 | Ambassador to Ghana |
| 1957–1960 | Ambassador to Liberia |
| 1960 | Ambassador to Congo-Léopoldville |
| 1965–1968 | Ambassador to Italy |
| 1966–1968 | Ambassador to Malta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 October 1917[1] |
| Died | 27 August 1980 (aged 62) |
Ehud Avriel (Hebrew: אהוד אבריאל; 19 October 1917 – 27 August 1980) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1955 and 1957.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born Georg Überall in Vienna in Austria-Hungary, Avriel was educated at the Humanistic Secondary School.[1] He was a member of the Blue-White movement, and between 1938 and 1940 worked for the Youth Aliyah office in occupied Vienna.
He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1940 and settled in kibbutz Neot Mordechai. He joined the Haganah, and was involved in the Rescue Committee assisting Jews flee Europe. He spent some years in Turkey as well for that purpose. After the war ended he helped illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. In 1946 he was sent to Czechoslovakia to purchase arms for the Jewish community. On 28 July 1948 he became envoy to Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Together with Israeli tycoon Efraim Ilin, Avriel negotiated an arms deal with Czechoslovakia.[2] Two years later he was moved to Romania where he remained, as head of the legation, until late March 1951, returning to Israel in April.
In 1955 he was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai list. However, he resigned on 31 July 1957, and was appointed ambassador to Ghana and Liberia,[3] a position he held until 1960.[4] He then briefly served as ambassador to the newly-independent Congo-Léopoldville.[4] Between 1961 and 1965 he served as deputy director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before serving as ambassador to Italy between 1965 and 1968. From 1966 until 1968, while based in Rome, he was also ambassador to Malta.[5] He later worked as a consul general in Chicago in 1974, and an ambassador for Special Affairs between 1977 and 1979.[6]
He died of a heart attack on 27 August 1980 while giving a lecture on the diaspora of American Jews in Jerusalem, and was buried in the cemetery of Neot Mordechai.[7]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ehud Avriel on the Knesset website
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- 1917 births
- 1980 deaths
- Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to Mandatory Palestine
- Austrian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Haganah members
- Israeli civil servants
- Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959)
- Ambassadors of Israel to the Republic of the Congo
- Ambassadors of Israel to Ghana
- Ambassadors of Israel to Liberia
- Ambassadors of Israel to Italy
- Mapai politicians
- Ambassadors of Israel to Romania
- Ambassadors of Israel to Czechoslovakia
- Ambassadors of Israel to Hungary
- Ambassadors of Israel to Malta
- Austrian Zionists
- Israeli people of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Members of Aliyah Bet