Uri Lubrani
Uriel Lubrani (Hebrew: אורי לוברני; October 7, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an Israeli diplomat and military official. In 1964, he joined the diplomatic corps of the Foreign Ministry, and was appointed ambassador to Uganda and non-resident ambassador to Burundi and Rwanda, serving until 1967. From 1967 to 1971, he was ambassador to Ethiopia.
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Lubrani in June 2013 | |
Born | Uriel Lubrani October 7, 1926 |
Died | March 5, 2018 91) Tel Aviv, Israel | (aged
Alma mater | Hebrew Reali School |
Occupation | Diplomat, military official |
Years active | 1950–2018 |
From 1973 to 1978, he was head of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Iran, with the rank of ambassador.
Biography
Uri Lubrani was born in Haifa.[1] He was the only son of Aaron and Rose Lubrani.[1] He attended the Hebrew Reali School.[2]
In 1944, he joined the Haganah,[2] and served in the Palmach.[3] He assisted in Aliyah Bet operations to smuggle illegal Jewish immigrants into Palestine, and in 1946, was sent to southern France to command a Haganah training camp for volunteers from English-speaking countries willing to fight for the Jewish cause.[2] He returned with one such group to fight in the Israeli War of Independence,[1] in which he served as an intelligence officer in the 7th Armored Brigade and Yiftach Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces.[1] Lubrani died on March 5, 2018 from natural causes in Tel Aviv at the age of 91.[4][5]
Diplomatic career
After the war ended, Lubrani joined the Middle East Department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and in 1950 became secretary and bureau head for Foreign Minister Moshe Sharet.[1] Between 1953 and 1956, he studied at London University, and earned a BA.[5] After returning to Israel in 1956, he was appointed Deputy Adviser on Arab Affairs for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.[2] In this role, he was dedicated to development in Arab villages and recruiting Druze into military service.[1] He then served as Bureau Manager and Secretary of Policy for Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.[6]
In 1964, he joined the diplomatic corps of the Foreign Ministry, and was appointed ambassador to Uganda and non-resident ambassador to Burundi and Rwanda, serving until 1967.[1][2] From 1967 to 1971, he was ambassador to Ethiopia.[7] He then served as director of the state-owned Koor Industries Ltd..[5] From 1973 to 1978, he was head of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Iran, with the rank of ambassador.[8]
From 1979 to 1983, he worked in the private sector.[5] In 1983, during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon after the 1982 Lebanon War, Lubrani was the governor (coordinator) of the activities of Israeli forces in Lebanon.[9]
In September 1990, Lubrani was a coordinator in Ethiopia, assisting with Operation Solomon, the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.[10] He was a member of the Israeli delegation in Geneva to negotiate a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah.[11] In 1992, headed the Israeli delegation to Lebanon in the wake of the Madrid Conference in Washington, DC.[12]
Lubrani continued to serve as a consultant to the Minister of Defense and coordinator for government operations in Lebanon.[5] After the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, he continued to serve as a consultant for the Ministry of Defense, then for the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.[5] He was a consultant until 2010.[1] In December 2017, Lubrani called for the "overthrow" of the Iranian regime to stop their nuclear program.[13]
References
- "Uri Lubrani" (PDF). University of Haifa. 27 May 2014.
- Parsi, Trita (2007). Treacherous alliance: the secret dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States. Yale University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-300-12057-8.
- http://info.palmach.org.il/show_item.asp?levelId=38495&itemId=6316&itemType=0&fighter=75830
- "Умер советник министров обороны Ури Лубрани" (in Russian). 5 March 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- "URI LUBRANI, SOLDIER, DIPLOMAT, PRISONER-EXCHANGE NEGOTIATOR, DEAD AT 91". Jerusalem Post. March 5, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- Kollek, Teddy (2008). Itamar Rabinovich (ed.). Israel in the Middle East: documents and readings on society, politics, and foreign relations, pre-1948 to the present. UPNE. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-87451-962-4.
- Alexander, Zvi (2004). Oil: Israel's covert efforts to secure oil supplies. Gefen Publishing House. p. 73. ISBN 978-965-229-317-6.
- Milani, Abbas (2000). The Persian sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the riddle of the Iranian Revolution : a biography. I.B. Tauris. p. 302. ISBN 978-1-85043-328-6.
- Sherry, Virginia N. (1999). Persona non grata: the expulsion of Lebanese civilians from Israeli-occupied Lebanon. Human Rights Watch. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-1-56432-237-1.
- Arbel, Andrea S. (2001). Riding the wave: the Jewish Agency's role in the mass aliyah of Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, 1987-1995. Gefen Publishing House. p. 142. ISBN 978-965-229-268-1.
- Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier (1997). Pilgrimage for peace: a Secretary-General's memoir. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-312-16486-7.
- Massalha, Omar (1994). Towards the long-promised peace. Saqi Books. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-86356-065-1.
- Katz, Yaakov (December 29, 2017). "EICHMANN MOSSAD CAPTURER: ONLY WAY TO STOP IRAN IS TO OVERTHROW REGIME". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 30, 2017.