Avraham Harman, formerly Israel consul in Canada, has been appointed Counselor at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, and Director of the Israel Office of Information in New York. Mr. Harman has already assumed his new duties.
Mr. Harman, who is 36 years old, was born in London and educated at Oxford University. He settled in Israel in 1938 and shortly after, spent two years in South Africa, working with the South African Zionist Federation. He returned to Jerusalem in 1940, and worked for the Jewish Agency. In 1948 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Press and Information Division of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and in July, 1949, he went to Canada as the first Israel Consul-General to that country.
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