Aryeh Levin (diplomat)

Between 1948 and 1950 Levin Worked for Aliyah – American Joint Distribution Committee, directing a refugee camp and as personal assistant to the first country director of AJDC.

In 1958 he was assigned as head of the research unit at Army Intelligence on Great Powers and the non-Arab countries of ME and Horn of Africa.

In September 1977 Levin was made Director of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jerusalem.

He served as Minister Plenipotentiary and temporary Chargé d'Affaires of Israel's diplomatic mission to Tehran, Iran (1973)[2] and as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Head of Mission to the UN in New York City in 1981, as well as Chief Israeli delegate to the UN General Assembly's Special Political Committee between 1982 and 1984.

In reference to the book, Abba Eban commented that “ Aryeh Levin...has a dramatic story to tell in this book and he tells it with style and passion” and in a review of The Jerusalem Post it was called “ ...an excellent and informative account of how diplomacy and foreign policy go hesitantly hand in hand...A wonderful read.” [7]