Shlomo Ginossar (; born Shlomo Ginzberg October 16, 1889 – January 1, 1969) was a

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activist and

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i diplomat.

Biography

He was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Shlomo Ginzberg, (later Ginossar)

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with his family from Russian to the Ottoman Empire as a young man. He was the son of

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. His future wife,

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, was the daughter of family friends.''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', 2 ed., vol. 7, Ginossar (Née Hacohen), Rosa, Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, pp. 607-608 In 1910, they studied at the University of Paris together and married in Switzerland in 1917. He was the chief Administrator of the

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and Israel's Ambassador to Italy from 1949 until 1951. Ginossar was a resident of Jerusalem's

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He died in Tel Aviv.

References

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