Eliyahu Ben-Elissar

Eliahu Ben- Elissar (Hebrew אליהו בן אלישר; born August 2, 1932 in Radom, Poland as Eli Gottlieb; † August 12, 2000 in Paris) was an Israeli politician and diplomat.

Eli Gottlieb was born in 1932 as the youngest of three children in a prestigious Radomer family. At the age of 10 years Eli Gottlieb emigrated in 1942 with the Radom family Graucher in the British Mandate of Palestine. Gottlieb used this, the entry permit of any of the sons of the family, however, had been already deported by the Nazis. Gottlieb himself learned only after the end of World War II by the fate of his family. His father had died in a concentration camp, his mother in a car accident shortly after the war. Only his two siblings had survived.

Eli Gottlieb visited after arriving in the British Mandate of a school in Tel Aviv and later joined the Irgun at. Thereafter he served until 1965 in the Israeli armed forces. He then studied at the University of Paris and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, and later a Master of Arts in international law. At the University of Geneva, he received his Ph.D..

After received his doctorate Ben- Elissar was working as a journalist and also worked as a spokesperson for Herut. In 1977 he was appointed Director General of the Office of the Prime Minister. This post he held until 1980 when he became the first Israeli ambassador to Egypt. In 1981 he left this office and was elected to the Knesset for Likud. Ben- Elissar was four times re-elected. Four months after his last re-election in 1996 he laid down his mandate to Ambassador to the United States to become. In 1998 he moved to the ambassador to France, where he remained until August 2000. A week after his dismissal he died on August 12, 2000 in Paris on a cardiac arrest. Ben- Elissar was busy at this time with preparations for his return to Israel.

Writings

• La diplomacy you Ille et les Juifs Empire, Paris: Bourgois, 1981