Haim Yahiel

Haim Yahiel (b. 1905-d.1974) Israeli politician and diplomat.

Biography

Haim Yahiel first arrived in Palestine in 1929 and joined Kibbutz Giv'at Hayim. Shortly after he returned to Europe. On his return to Palestine in 1939 he served as Histadrut Director of education Haifa until 1942. From 1942 to 1945 was a member of the Histadrut Executive committee. In 1945 Yahiel was the Jewish Agency representative in Munich Germany. After the Israeli Declaration of Independence Yahiel became the Israeli Consul in Munich until 1949. In 1949 Yahiel returned to Israel joining the Jewish Agency Department of Absorption as director in Jerusalem. In 1951 Yahiel was appointed as head of Information Department in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1953. In 1956 Yahiel became the minister to Scandinavian countries later serving as the Israeli Ambassador to Sweden and minister to Norway and Iceland. In 1960 Yahiel took the post of Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1965 until 1972 Yahiel was Chairman of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and until his death in 1974 was the leader of the "Whole land of Israel" movement. [Nur Masalha (2000) "Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion" Pluto Press ISBN 0745316158]

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