Meir Rosenne

Meir Rosenne was born in 1931 in Iași

Meir Rosenne was born Meir Rosenhaupt in Iași, Romania, in 1931, to Yaakov and Mina Rosenhaupt. In 1941 he witnessed the Iași pogrom. In 1944 he left Europe by boat from the port of Constanța and reached Mandatory Palestine.

He studied at the Sorbonne in France, earning degrees in political science and law. He completed a doctorate in international law in 1957.

He joined the foreign service in 1953 and later served as consul in New York. From 1971 to 1979 he was legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and took part in the talks on the Camp David Accords and the peace treaty with Egypt. He was ambassador to France from 1979 to 1983 and ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 1987, a period that included the Pollard affair.

From 1989 to 1994 he was president of the Israel Bonds Organization. He was a senior partner at the law firm Balter, Guth, Aloni and taught international law. In 2010 he became president of the Movement for Freedom of Information, and he died in Tel Aviv in 2015.