Abba Eban

Abba Eban
Ministerial roles
1959–1960	Minister without Portfolio
1960–1963	Minister of Education & Culture
1963–1966	Deputy Prime Minister
1966–1974	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Faction represented in the Knesset
1959–1965	Mapai
1965–1968	Alignment
1968–1969	Labor Party
1969–1988	Alignment
Diplomatic roles
1949–1959	Permanent Representative to the UN
1950–1959	Ambassador to the United States
Personal details
Born	(1915-02-02)2 February 1915 Cape Town, South Africa
Died	17 November 2002(2002-11-17) (aged 87) Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge
Signature

Abba Solomon Meir Eban^[1] (/ˈɑːbə ˈiːbən/ ^ⓘ; Hebrew: אבא שלמה אבן [ˈ(ʔ)aba ˈ(ʔ)even]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also vice president of the United Nations General Assembly and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science.