Esther Herlitz
| Esther Herlitz | |
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| Date of birth | 9 October 1921 |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Year of aliyah | 1933 |
| Date of death | 24 March 2016 (aged 94) |
| Knessets | 8, 9 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1974–1977 | Alignment |
| 1979–1981 | Alignment |
Esther Herlitz (Hebrew: אסתר הרליץ, 9 October 1921 – 24 March 2016) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1973 and 1977 and again from 1979 until 1981. She was also Israel's first female ambassador, having been appointed as the country's ambassador to Denmark in 1966.
Born in Berlin in Germany in 1921, Herlitz migrated with her family to Mandatory Palestine in 1933. Her father, historian George Herlitz, founded the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. She attended high school in Jerusalem, first at the Gymnasia Rehavia, and later at the Hebrew University Secondary School. She also studied at a teachers seminary and the Foreign Service school. She joined the Haganah while serving as an officer in the British Army, and later served in the Israel Defense Forces.
In 1948 she began working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was involved in negotiating the Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany. She served as consul to New York between 1955 and 1958, and as ambassador to Denmark from 1966 until 1971, as well as on several missions to the United Nations. She was director of public relations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1960s, and was regarded as a pioneer in building the relationship between American Jews and Israel.
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