death_date death_place birth_place ministeryears party partyyears birth_date image article_title birth_name minister
17 november 2002 tel aviv , israel cape town , south africa 1959 1966 -- 1974 -- 1960 1960 -- 1963 1963 -- 1966 alignment mapai alignment labor party alignment 1959 1969 -- 1988 -- 1965 1965 -- 1968 1968 -- 1969 2 february 1915 abba eban 1970.jpg abba eban
 abba solomon meir minister prime minister minister of foreign affairs without portfolio minister of education & culture deputy
abba eban

abba eban -lrb- ; ; born aubrey solomon meir eban ; later adopted abba solomon meir eban ; 2 february 1915 -- 17 november 2002 -rrb- was an israeli diplomat and politician , and a scholar of the arabic and hebrew languages .
in his career he was israeli foreign affairs minister , education minister , deputy prime minister , and ambassador to the united states and to the united nations .
he was also vice president of the united nations general assembly and president of the weizmann institute of science .
