RARE! “Golda Meir Advisor" Simcha Dinitz Hand Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1975

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"Israeli Ambassador" Simcha Dinitz Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Simcha Dinitz
(
Hebrew
:
שמחה
דיניץ
‎, born 23
June 1929, died 23 September 2003) was an
Israeli
statesman
and politician. He served
as Director General of the Prime Minister's office and political advisor to
Prime Minister
Golda Meir
from 1969
to 1973, before becoming the
Israeli
Ambassador
to the
United States
from 1973 to 1979. He had an overlapping
appointment as the
Non resident
Ambassador to the Bahamas
During the 1980s he was elected to
the
Knesset
. 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  he
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 coordinated
Operation Solomon
, in which over 14,000
Ethiopian Jews
were airlifted to safety in
Israel
in one day in May 1991. In 1995, Dinitz was forced
to step down after he was indicted for two charges of theft.
[2]
Dinitz claimed that these were accounting
errors, and was tried in the Jerusalem District Court. He was acquitted of one
charge and convicted of the other, but the conviction was overturned in an
appeal to the
Supreme Court of Israel
. Dinitz
received his diplomatic training at the
Edmund A.
Walsh School of Foreign Service
at
Georgetown University
in
the United States where he obtained both bachelor's and master's degrees.