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Biography of Abba Eban
Name: Abba Eban
Birth Date: 1915
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Capetown, South Africa
Nationality: Israeli
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, ambassador, author, organization president
Abba Eban
The Israeli statesman, diplomat, and scholar Abba Eban (born 1915) served as Israel's United Nations representative and ambassador to the United States until 1959. He was Israel's foreign minister between 1966 and 1974.Abba Solomon Eban was born in 1915 in Capetown, South Africa. His parents moved to Great Britain during his childhood, where Eban studied classics and oriental languages at Cambridge University. He learned seven languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. At Cambridge he was active as a student Zionist leader, in the University Labor Society, and as president of the Student Union. During World War II he volunteered as a private in the British army, rising to the rank of major. One of his assignments between 1942 and 1944 was chief instructor at the British military's Middle East Arabic Center in Jerusalem. Because of his Zionist connections he also served as liaison officer for the British with the Jewish Agency, predecessor of the Israeli government.…showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…its pro-Likud stance.Eban served in the Knesset until 1988. Though in his eighties, he continued to play an active role in Israeli politics, at least from the sidelines. His fifteenth book, Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes, was published in 1993 and became a five-part series hosted by Eban on American public television. In 1998 he wrote another book titledDiplomacy for the Next Generation. Stephen Green in a Library Journal review wrote,"This relatively short book packs a lot of political savvy and demonstrates insight into the international political decision-making process."Eban died on November 17, 2002, at a hospital near Tel Aviv, Israel. He was 87. Further Reading Eban is listed in the Encyclopaedia Judaica and in the Encyclopaedia of Zionism and Israel , also in Who's Who 1985-1986. A full length biography, Eban (1972), was written by Robert St. John. Abba Eban published his own story, An Autobiography (1978), along with Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes (1993).
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