Zalman Shoval

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Zalman Shoval
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Date of birth 28 April 1930 (1930-04-28) (age 78)
Place of birth Free City of Danzig
Year of Aliyah 1938
Knesset(s) 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th
Party Likud
Former parties National List, Rafi - National List, Telem

Zalman Shoval (Hebrew: זלמן שובל‎, born 28 April 1930) is an Israeli politician and diplomat.

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Born in the free city of Danzig, Shoval immmigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1938. He attended high school in Tel Aviv before studying for a BA at Berkely, an MA at the University of Geneva and then a PhD (by correspondence) in international studies.

Between 1955 and 1957 he worked in the Ministry Foreign Affairs, after which he became involved in finance, twice serving as chairman of the Bankers Association Council.

Shoval joined David Ben-Gurion when he left to found Rafi in 1965, and then again when Ben-Gurion founded the National List in 1969. In the elections that year he narrowly missed out on being elected to the Knesset - Shoval was placed fifth on the party's list, but it won only four seats. However, when Ben-Gurion resigned from the Knesset in May 1970, Shoval took his place.

Shortly before the 1973 elections, the National List joined other groups to form the Likud, and Shoval was returned to the Knesset as a Likud MK. Re-elected in 1977, he was responsible for information in Foreign Affairs Ministry as a deputy to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan.

In January 1981 Shoval and two other Likud MKs (Yigal Hurvitz and Yitzhak Peretz) broke away from the party to form Telem with Moshe Dayan. However, in the 1981 elections Telem won only two mandates, and Shoval lost his seat.

In 1984 Hurvitz and Shoval formed Ometz. Whilst he missed out on election to the Knesset in that year's elections, Ometz merged back into Likud in 1986, and in 1988 Shoval was elected back into the Knesset as a Likud MK.

He resigned from the Knesset in October 1990 in order to become Israeli Ambassador to the United States, a post he held until 1993, and again between 1998 and 2000.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Moshe Arad
Israeli Ambassador to the United States
1990-1993
Succeeded by
Itamar Rabinovich
Preceded by
Eliahu Ben Elissar
Israeli Ambassador to the United States
1998-2000
Succeeded by
David Ivry

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