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Mordechai Gazit
Mordechai Gazit ( he, מרדכי גזית: September 5, 1922 - May 29, 2016) was an Israeli diplomat. He served as an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, ambassador to France, and Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Biography Mordechai Weinstein (later Gazit) was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a family of Ukrainian Jews. His younger brother was Shlomo Gazit. The family immigrated to Palestine when he was a child. At 14, he joined the Haganah, and completed an officer's course in 1943. In 1946, he was chosen to participate in the first class of the Institute of Advanced Studies, a diplomatic school set up by the Jewish Agency to train a generation of professional diplomats for the future Jewish state. Gazit received a master's degree in archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Mordechai Gazit Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was promoted to Vizier after Haman was killed. Biblical account Mordecai resided in Susa (Shushan or Shoushan),Esther 2:5–6 of the Bible (New International Version): : Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who has been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah. the metropolis of Persia (now Iran). He adopted his orphaned cousin (Esther 2:7), Hadassah ( Esther), whom he brought up as if she were his own daughter. When "young virgins" were sought, she was taken into the presence of King Ahasuerus and was made queen in the place of the exiled queen Vashti. Subsequently, Mordecai discovered a plot of the king's chamberlains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
