The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (88 page)

Ambassador Yehuda Avner was born in Manchester, England, in 1928, and first reached Israel shortly before independence, in 1947. He is a founding member of Kibbutz Lavi in Galilee, and entered the Israel Foreign Service in the late 1950s. During a lengthy diplomatic career he served as consul in New York, counselor at the Washington Embassy, ambassador to Great Britain, non-resident ambassador to Ireland, and ambassador to Australia. Between overseas postings he served as speech writer and secretary to Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, and adviser to Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. In 1995, the Yehuda Avner Chair on Religion and Politics was established at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of
The Young Inheritors: A Portrait of Israel’s Children
, and a frequent guest columnist with the
Jerusalem Post
. For more information see www.yehudaavner.com.

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