Israel’s ambassador to France died of a heart attack in Paris over the weekend at the age of 68. A former Mossad agent and legislator from the Likud Party, Eliahu Ben-Elissar spent two years as Israel’s ambassador to the United States under the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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