Abba Eban, born Aubrey Solomon Meir-, was a politician and israeli diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel between 1966 and 1974.
He performed university studies at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, working with Chaim Weizmann in the World Zionist Organization and serving in the british army during the Second World War. He then worked, until 1946, as a professor at a study centre for the Middle East at the Foreign Office.
In 1946 he was appointed to the Jewish Agency for Palestinaen where he developed his work until the creation of the State of Israel. In the first israeli cabinet, he was appointed ambassador at the UN and in the united States at a time, until 1959.