Eliahu Ben Elissar

Eliahu Ben Elissar
Israeli Ambassador to Egypt
In office 1980 – 1981
Israeli Ambassador to the United States
In office 1996 – 1998
Preceded by	Itamar Rabinovich
Succeeded by	Zalman Shoval
Israeli Ambassador to France
In office 1998 – 2000
Born	August 2 1932(1932--) Radom, Poland
Died	August 12 2000 (aged 68) Paris, France
Religion	Judaism

Eliahu Ben Elissar (Hebrew: אליהו בן אלישר‎, born 2 August 1932, died 12 August 2000) was an Israeli politician and diplomat.

Biography

Born in Radom, Poland in 1932, Ben Elissar immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1942. He served in the Israel Defense Forces until 1965, and attended the University of Paris, where he gained a BA in social sciences and an MA in international law. Following his master's degree, he completed a PhD at the University of Geneva.

He was appointed general director of the Prime Minister's office in 1977, a position he held until 1981 when he was appointed as Israel's first ambassador to Egypt following the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.

In 1981 he left his ambassadorial post, and was elected to the Knesset as a Likud member. During his first Knesset term he chaired the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

He was re-elected in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996, and again chaired the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee between 1988 and 1992.

Four months after the 1996 elections he resigned from the Knesset to take up the post of Israeli ambassador to the United States. In 1998, he was appointed the Israeli Ambassador to France.

He died in Paris in 2000.

Bibliography

• La Guerre Israelo-Arabe
• La Diplomatie du Troisieme Reich et les Juifs

External links

• Eliahu Ben Elissar on the Knesset website

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