Person Open DS/UK/15701 Avner; Yehuda (30 December 1928-24 March 2015); British-born Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author Avner Yehuda 30 December 1928-24 March 2015 British-born Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author Male (cisgender) Lawrence Haffner Manchester, England (born)

Jerusalem, Israel (died)

Israeli British Political Figure; Diplomat Arab / Middle Eastern No known disability Jewish Spouse of Mimi Cailingold (sister of Ester Caliningold) Heterosexual Yehuda Avner was an Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author. He served as Speechwriter and Secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol, and as Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. Avner served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York, and the Israeli Embassy to the US in Washington, DC, and as Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Ireland and Australia. In 2010, he turned his insider stories about Israeli politics and diplomacy into a bestselling book, The Prime Ministers, which subsequently became the basis for a two-part documentary movie. In 2015, his novel, The Ambassador, which Avner co-authored with thriller writer Matt Rees, was posthumously published. He was active in the religious Zionist youth movement, Bnei Akiva, and was committed to helping build a Jewish state. In The Prime Ministers, he recalls the anti-Semitism he saw and experienced in Britain, including anti-Semitic rioting in the aftermath of the Sergeants affair. Upon high school graduation, he moved to Jerusalem, then part of British Mandatory Palestine in November 1947. Avner fought in the Siege of Jerusalem during Israel's 1948 War of Independence. In 1949, he was amongst the founders of Kibbutz Lavi, a religious kibbutz located in Israel's Galilee region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Avner (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 4/28/2014 RAHAKirkbride 11/29/2022 fadc7de4-ca2c-4ee4-8cb2-c86b019c83ac