Zalman Shoval

Zalman Shoval ( born April 28, 1930 in the Free City of Danzig) is an Israeli diplomat and former politician.

Shoval was born in 1930 in the Free City of Danzig. In 1938, the family emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine. After attending a high school in Tel Aviv Shoval studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA). His Master of Arts ( MA), he received the Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva. There Shoval later earned his PhD also.

Between 1955 and 1957, Shoval worked at the State Department, but left it to become active in the banking and finance. Among other things, he was twice chairman of the Bankers Association Council.

Shoval was a member of Mapai in the 1950s. In 1965 he joined David Ben Gurion, when he left the Mapai and Rafi founded the party. When this came up in the Avodah in 1968, he followed Ben Gurion in 1969 he founded National List. After Ben Gurion resigned his seat in the Knesset, Shoval moved for him. The National List finally went on in the Likud, and so Shoval sat from 1973 to that party in the Knesset.

In January 1981, Shoval left the Likud, along with the Likud deputies Yigal Hurwitz and Yitzhak Peretz, Moshe Dayan and founded the party Telem. However, since Telem won only two seats in the Knesset in 1981, Shoval lost his seat in Parliament.

In 1984, Hurvitz and Shoval Ometz founded. Two years later Ometz went on in the Likud. 1988 Shoval was eventually re-elected to the Knesset. In October 1990, Shoval resigned to become the Israeli ambassador to the United States. This office he held until 1993 and again from 1998 to 2000.