Zalman Shoval
| Zalman Shoval | |
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| Date of birth | 28 April 1930 |
| Place of birth | Free City of Danzig |
| Year of aliyah | 1938 |
| Knessets | 7, 8, 9, 12 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1970–1974 | National List |
| 1974–1981 | Likud |
| 1981 | Rafi - State List |
| 1981 | Telem |
| 1988–1990 | Likud |
| Other roles | |
| 1990–1993 | Ambassador to the United States |
| 1998–2000 | Ambassador to the United States |
Zalman Shoval (Hebrew: זלמן שובל, born 28 April 1930) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. He is also active in Israel's economic life. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United States in the years 1990–1993 and 1998–2000, and an active member of the Knesset in the Rafi party of Ben Gurion, the State List, and the Likud party.
Shoval was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), then home to a large Jewish community, as the son of a Jewish family originating in Eastern Europe. His father was born in Latvia. They immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938. Shoval attended the "Geula" high school in Tel Aviv before obtaining a BA at UC Berkeley, an MA at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in 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 State 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 State 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 and was responsible for the P.R. and information aspects of the 1978 Camp David Conference. Before that (1977), he served as a member of Israel's delegation to the U.N.
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