Uri Lubrani

Uri Lubrani was born in 1926 in Haifa

Uri Lubrani was born in Haifa on October 7, 1926. He was the only son of Aaron and Rose Lubrani, and his father was a veterinarian. He studied at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.

He joined the Haganah in 1944 and later served in the Palmach, helping with illegal immigration by sea. In 1946 he was sent to southern France to command a training camp for foreign volunteers. In the 1948 war he served as an intelligence officer.

After the war he joined the Foreign Ministry and became secretary to Moshe Sharett in 1950. In 1956 he became an adviser on Arab affairs to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and worked to bring Druze citizens into the IDF. He later served as ambassador to Uganda, Ethiopia and, from 1973 to 1978, Iran.

From 1983 to 2000 he coordinated government activities in Lebanon. He also led diplomatic talks with Ethiopia that led to Operation Solomon in 1991. He later advised defense ministers and retired from state service in 2015, and he died in 2018.