Ephraim Evron

Ephraim Evron was born in 1920 in Haifa

Ephraim Evron was born in Haifa on June 12, 1920, during the British Mandate. He attended the Hebrew Reali School and was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement.

During World War II he volunteered for the British Army. He studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and law at the Mandatory law school. In the 1948 war he served with the IDF in Jerusalem and was wounded there.

He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1949 as secretary to Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, and later worked for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon. He served at embassies in Washington and London and was ambassador to Sweden and Canada. In 1975 he took part in talks between Israel, Mexico and the American Jewish community over UN Resolution 3379.

In 1977 Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan named him director general of the ministry. He was ambassador to the United States until 1982 and president of the University of Haifa from 1984 to 1988. He married Rivka Passman in 1943, had a son and a daughter, and died in Ramat Gan on July 17, 1995.