Shmoel Elyashiv (born Shmuel Fridman, October 11, 1899

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– June 20, 1955) was an Israeli diplomat and writer.

Biography

Elyashiv was raised in Kovno. He studied jurisprudence in

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and

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, graduated in

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and in 1928, was practicing as a jurist in Kovno. Elyashiv was chairman of the central committee of the Zionist Socialist Party from 1927 until 1934, when he emigrated to Palestine.

Career

Politics/diplomacy

He held several positions with

Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...

from 1937 until 1948. He left to become the manager of the East European section in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as ambassador to

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and

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from 1950 until 1951. He was a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations in 1950 and 1952 and served as Israel's ambassador to Moscow, 1951–1955.,

Literary career

* (The Histadrut) (Tel Aviv, 1947) (textbook) * (Ukrainian motifs), short stories (Berlin-Paris, 1926) * (Paris: Librairie Generale de Droit and de Jurisprudence, 1927) * (Impressions of a journey) (Tel Aviv, 1951), * (New Soviet literature) (Tel Aviv, 1953)

References

External links

When Ben-Gurion Defended Stalin
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