Abba Eban
Abba Eban Date of birth (1915-02-02)2 February 1915 Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa Year of aliyah 1940 Date of death 17 November 2002(2002-11-17) (aged 87) Place of death Tel Aviv, Israel Knessets 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Faction represented in Knesset 1959–1965 Mapai 1965–1968 Alignment 1968–1969 Labor Party 1969–1988 Alignment Ministerial roles 1959–1960 Minister without Portfolio 1960–1963 Minister of Education & Culture 1963–1966 Deputy Prime Minister 1966–1974 Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel delegation to the UN: (l-r) A. Lourie, consul general; Dr. J. Robinson, counsellor; A. Eban, envoy extraordinary; Dr. Avraham Katznelson, Minister of Health; Gideon Rafael, Foreign Affairs (1950) Abba Eban (center) with Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion and U.S. President Harry Truman (1951) Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion (center) giving a Hanukkah Menorah as a gift to U.S. President Truman in the Oval Office. At right is Abba Eban, the Ambassador of Israel to the U.S. (1951) Abba Eban (i/ˈæbə ˈiːbən/; Hebrew: אבא אבן [ˈʔaba ˈʔevin]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; later adopted Abba Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.