Yosef Tekoah

Yosef Tekoah ( born March 4, 1925 as Yosef Tukaczynski, † April 14, 1991 in New York City ) was an Israeli diplomat.

Yosef Tekoah was born in 1925. In 1930 his family emigrated first to Harbin in Manchuria and later to Shanghai, where they were active in international trade. Tekoah studied law at the Université l' Aurore in Shanghai. After his graduation, he went there in the United States to where his studies at Harvard University to continue. In 1948 he received his Masters in International Relations. Tekoah now moved to Israel, where he began to be in 1949 worked as a legal advisor to the Israeli foreign ministry. In 1953 he became head of the Israeli delegation to the armistice talks with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, and held this office the next five years.

In the course of his career he was a member from 1958 of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. In 1960, he was Ambassador to Brazil and was followed in 1962 three years ambassador to the Soviet Union. He then worked for two years as Assistant Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry before he finally was from 1968 to 1975 the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. In 1975 he returned to Israel to be returned to president of Ben- Gurion University of the Negev. 1976 his autobiography, In the Face of the Nations was released. In 1981 he was elected Chancellor of the University. This office he held until his death in 1991. Tekoah, who had already lived in Manhattan for a year to work at his university projects, died in New York City of a heart attack.

Tekoah was married to Ruth Tekoah since 1951 and had three children, a daughter and two sons. He spoke several languages ​​fluently, including English, French, Hebrew, and Russian. In the city of Be'er Sheva, a street was named after him.