Meir Ezri
{{Short description|One of the ambassadors of Israel}}
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| native_name = מאיר עזרי
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| birth_name = Meir Ezri
| birth_date = 1924
| birth_place = Iran
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2015|1924}}
| death_place = Israel
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| country = Iran
| term_start = 1968
| term_end = 1973
| predecessor = Zvi Duriel
| successor = Uri Lubrani
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| mother = Zuleikha Ezri
| father = Haaji Zion Ezri
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Meir Ezri ({{langx|he|מאיר עזרי}}; 1924–2015) was the ambassador and the first representative plenipotentiary of the Israeli political representation in Tehran, capital of Iran.
{{cite web
|url = http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2008/05/08/f2_Iran_jews-historical_relation.html
|title = اسرائیل شصت ساله و رابطه با ایران
|trans-title = Sixty years of Israel and the relationship with Iran
|language = fa
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
{{cite web
|url = http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3729203,00.html
|title = Experts: Iran's Jews to vote for Ahmadinejad, Yedioth Ahronoth
|trans-title = کارشناسان: یهودیان ایران به احمدی نژاد، یدیعوت آحارونوت رای می‌دهند
|language = en
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
He played an important role in promoting Iran-Israel relations between 1958 and 1975.
{{cite web
|url = http://gulfc.haifa.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=36
|title = About the Founder Dr. Meir Ezri
|trans-title = درباره بنیانگذار دکتر مئیر عزری
|language = en
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
Meir Ezri was also one of the activists of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Iran and played an important role in facilitating the immigration of Iranian Jews to Israel.
{{cite web
|url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/19/INGMQH9TVM1.DTL
|title = Iran, Jews and the Holocaust
|trans-title = ایران، یهودیان و هولوکاست
|language = en
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
Book of memories
In 2001, Meir Ezri published a memoir called "Anyone of his people among you" (in Hebrew: מי בקלם מכל עמו).
{{cite web
|url = https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30108861-anyone-of-his-people-among-you---mission-in-iran
|title = Anyone of his people among you - mission in Iran
|trans-title = مردمان در میان شما - مأموریت در ایران
|language = en
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
{{cite web
|url = http://www.notes.co.il/shulamit/13945.asp
|title = על הספר: "מי מכם מכל עמו", מאת מאיר עזרי
|trans-title = About the book: "Anyone of his people among you", by Meir Ezri
|language = he
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
Israeli politician Shimon Peres mentioned in the introduction of his book:
{{cite web
|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130928102857/http://gulfc.haifa.ac.il/dmdocuments/ezribook_forward.pdf
|title = Ezri book
|trans-title = کتاب عزری
|language = he
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
{{Blockquote
|text=From many years ago, perhaps even from the previous generation, Mr. Meir Ezri, one of the leaders of Iranian Jews and Israel's ambassador to Iran, is a well-known figure. It is difficult to find someone among us Israelis who is as well aware of the twists and turns of Iranian history and politics as he is. Meir Ezri knows Iranian language well and is well acquainted with Iranian culture. What we see in the mirror, he sees in the raw adobe.
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In the book "Anyone of his people among you", Meir Ezri has shown new angles of the relationship between Israel and Iran in the Pahlavi dynasty era.
{{cite web
|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111202101144/http://historylib.com/Site/SViewDocument.aspx?DocID=4&Keyword=
|title = يادنامه يا خاطرات مئير عزری
|trans-title = Memoirs or memories of Meir Ezri
|language = fa
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
With the financial assistance of Meir Ezri, in 2006, a research center was opened in Haifa University to learn the history and culture of Iran and the Persian Gulf region.
{{cite web
|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090521213445/http://www.hamdami.com/mfafa/isreliraninans/141207-iranian+libraray+in+haifa+university.htm
|title = آئین گشایش کتابخانه فارسی در دانشگاه حیفا در شمال اسرائیل
|trans-title = The ceremony of opening the Persian library at the University of Haifa in the north of Israel
|language = fa
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
{{cite web
|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080416225235/http://www.radiozamaneh.org/pejman/2007/04/post_24.html
|title = مرکز پژوهشی ایران و خلیج فارس در دانشگاه اسرائیلی
|trans-title = Iran and Persian Gulf Research Center in Israeli University
|language = fa
|access-date = 14 November 2024
}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-israeli-ambassador-to-iran-dies-aged-92/ Shah-era Israeli ambassador to Iran dies, aged 92]
- [https://isren.haifa.ac.il/copy-of-wydra-institute-of-shipping Meir Ezri]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bAyig3Fyu4 Dr. Meir Ezri, former Israeli Ambassador to Iran]
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/15233630.Meir_Ezri Books by Meir Ezri]
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Category:Ambassadors of Israel to Iran
Category:Politicians from Isfahan
Category:Israeli political writers