One of Israel’s top diplomats, Ehud Avriel, has been appointed Consul-General to Chicago and is due to take up the post shortly. Officials said his appointment was the first of a series intended to boost the strength and status of Israel’s representation to major American Jewish communities. Both Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Yigal Allon have spoken of their desire to upgrade the levels and status of the Consulates-General in some major U.S. cities.
Avriel’s last ambassadorship was to Italy in the late 1960s. Most recently he has served as special advisor to the Foreign Minister. H###tered the foreign service in 1948, having been a key figure earlier in the “Bricha” illegal immigration, and in major arms purchases from Czechoslovakia during the War of Independence. He has served as minister to Prague. Budapest and Bucharest, and later as Ambassador to Liberia and the Congo.
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