Zvi Elpeleg

Zvi Elpeleg

Zvi Elpeleg is an Israeli academic, currently a senior researcher at the Dayan Institute, part of Tel Aviv University.. He was a colonel in the Israeli army, and later an ambassador and author.

In the mid-1950s, he was the military governor of the Triangle and later the military governor of Gaza from 1956 to 1957.cite web
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010601/ai_n14385241
title=Obituary: Faisal Husseini
first=Robert
last=Fisk
authorlink=Robert Fisk
publisher=The Independent (London)
date=2001-06-01
] cite web
url=http://www.mediamonitors.net/zvielpeleg1.html
title=Respect their philosophy of survival (end note bio)
first=Zvi
last=Elpeleg
publisher=Bitterlemons.org / Media monitors
year=2002
] He became Israel's first military governor of the West Bank in 1967.cite web
url=http://www.hadassah.org/news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2000/Jan/one.htm
title=One on One: Portrait of Michal Snunit
first=Sheldon
last=Teitelbaum
publisher=Hasassah Magazine
month=January
year=2000
] He would repeat the role during the Israeli occupation of Faid, Egypt in 1973, and again in occupied South Lebanon in 1982.

He served as Israel's ambassador to Turkey from 1995 to 1997. [cite book
title=Turkey: Facing a New Millennium : Coping With Intertwined Conflicts
first=Amikam
last=Nachmani
pages=209
year=2003
publisher=Manchester University Press
isbn=0719063701
]

He later entered academia, becoming an Arabist. Since 1972 he has been a senior researcher at the Dayan Institute He authored a biography of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni. [Zvi Elpeleg, "The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin Al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement", Frank Cass Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0714641006.]

Zvi Elpeleg serves as Turkey-Israel Friendship Association chairman and has been appointed as Turkey's honorary consul to Tel Aviv by the former Turkish president Suleyman Demirel cite web
url=http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazarDetay.do?haberno=30426
title=Today's Zaman
publisher=Today's Zaman
year=2006
] as a gratitude for his role in the Israeli IDF Aid for Turkish Earthquake Victims August 1999 cite web
url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1999/8/Israeli%20Aid%20for%20Turkish%20Earthquake%20Victims
title=Israeli IDF Aid for Turkish Earthquake Victims
publisher=Israeli Foreign Ministry
year=1999
] .

External links

* Zvi Elpeleg, [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Why+Was+-Independent+Palestine-+Never+Created+in+1.htm Why was 'Independent Palestine' Never Created in 1948 ?] , published in The Jerusalem Quarterly, 50, Spring 1989, retrieved from Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, January 6, 2008.

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