- Simcha Dinitz
MKs
Date of birth =23 June 1929
Place of birth =Tel Aviv , Mandate Palestine
Year of Aliyah =
Date of death =23 September 2003
Place of death =
Knesset(s) = 11th
Party = Alignment
Former parties =
Gov't roles =Simcha Dinitz ( _he. שמחה דיניץ, born
23 June 1929 , died23 September 2003 ) was anIsrael istatesman and politician. He served as Director General of the Prime Minister's office and political advisor to Prime MinisterGolda Meir from 1969-1973, before becoming theIsraeli Ambassador to theUnited States from 1973 to 1979. During the 1980s he was elected to theKnesset .Dinitz played a major role in coordinating the weapons shipments to Israel received from the U.S. during the
Yom Kippur War airlift in 1973, and was a member of the Israeli delegation during the Camp David peace talks with Egypt.In the 1984 elections he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment's list and served as a member of its Committee for Foreign and Defense Affairs. However, he resigned from the Knesset shortly before the 1988 elections.
From 1986 Dinitz served as Chairman of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel. During his time in office, almost 1 million Jews (about 7% of the entire Jewish population in the world)
emigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union and other countries. In addition, he coordinatedOperation Solomon , in which over 14,000Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to safety inIsrael in one day in May 1991.In 1995 Dinitz was forced to step down after he was indicted for two charges of theft. [ [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/3439/edition_id/61/format/html/displaystory.html "Ex-chief of Jewish Agency is guilty of credit card fraud"] ] Dinitz claimed that these were accounting errors. After a long process he was acquitted of all guilt.
Dinitz received his diplomatic training at the
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service atGeorgetown University in the United States where he obtained both bachelors and masters degrees.References
External links
* [http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/dinitz.html Simcha Dinitz on the official Jewish Agency website (in English)]
* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=364 Simcha Dinitz on the official Knesset website (in English)]
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