Shmuel Hadas

Samuel Hadas ( born August 13, 1931 in Resistencia, Argentina, † January 12, 2010 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli diplomat.

Samuel Hadas was born in 1931 as the son of an Ashkenazi family in Resistencia, Argentina. In 1954 he emigrated to Israel, where he spent several years in a kibbutz and worked in agriculture. In 1964, he moved to Jerusalem and began working for the State Department. After positions in Mexico and Colombia, he was finally 1971-1975 Ambassador to Bolivia. 1982 Hadas was sent to Madrid, where he was the Israeli representative to the World Tourism Organization. He used this position to improve diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel. Hadas had a decisive influence on the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1986. As part of Hadas also became the first Israeli ambassador to Madrid. This post he held for the next 18 months.

Upon his return to Israel, he worked in various posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In early 1994 he became the first Israeli ambassador to the Holy See. Until his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1997 Samuel Hadas ambassador to the Holy See remained. Hadas now settled in Jerusalem.

As the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in 2001, bilateral relations with the Holy See took up, Hadas was, even though he was not an orthodox Jew, whose diplomatic advisor and held this Funkition until his death. In January 2010, Hadas died at the age of 78 years in Jerusalem from the late effects of surgery. On January 12, he was buried in the cemetery of Givat Shaul.

Hadas was married and had two children.