Abba Eban
Overview
 
Abba Eban was an Israel
Israel
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i diplomat and politician.

In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister
Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel
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, Education Minister
Ministry of Education (Israel)
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, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly
United Nations General Assembly
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 and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Weizmann Institute of Science
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.
Born in Cape Town
Cape Town
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, South Africa, Eban moved to the United Kingdom at an early age.
Quotations

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Speech in London (16 December 1970); as quoted in The Times [London] (17 December 1970) and in Great Jewish Quotations (1996) by Alfred J. Kolatch, p. 115

 
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