Avi Pazner
Avi Pazner was born with Dantzig in Poland in 1937. In June 1939, two months before the beginning of the invasion of Poland by Germany, its family flees Poland for the Suisse from where his/her mother was originating. In 1956, it was mobilized by Tsahal and was joined the seventh regiment of armoured tank. It spent thirty months in the army. He studied then political sciences and the economy at the university of Jerusalem. In 1998, it was decorated Commandeur with the Légion of honor by President Jacques Chirac.
Professional path
In 1965 it enters to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Israel, it there remained until in 1998 and occupied the following responsibilities:- 1965 - 1967: trainee with division Europe
- 1967 - 1971: diplomat with the embassy of the Central African Republic
- 1971 - 1973:
- service communication of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- assistant spokesperson of the ministry
- spokesperson of the Israeli delegation to the conference of Geneva
- 1974 - 1983:
- to advise with the embassy of Israel with Washington
- to advise of the Minister Yitzhak Shamir during the war of the Lebanon
- 1983 - 1984: government spokesman of Yitzhak Shamir
- 1984 - 1986: to advise of the Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir
- 1986 - 1991: responsible for the public relations with the media under the government of Yitzhak Shamir, president of the Council
- 1991 - 1995:
- Ambassador of Israel in Italy where he was the architect of the reconciliation with the the Vatican, in particular following an audience deprived with the Pope Jean-Paul II.
- Ambassador nonresident of Israel in Albania.
- Ambassador nonresident of Israel to Malta.
- 1995 - 1998: Ambassador of Israel in France.
- Since 1998: World of the Keren Hayessod, organization Zionist of solidarity, so known president under the name of Call unified for Israel.
- Since 2001: government spokesman of Ariel Sharon then of Ehoud Olmert.
Works
- 2005 : Secrecies of a diplomat , autobiography.
Decorations
- Large Cross of the national order of the Italian merit
- Commander of the Legion of honor