Avi Beker

Avi Beker (Hebrew: אבי בקר; May 3, 1951 – June 4, 2015) was an Israeli writer, statesman, and academic.

[1][2] Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, Avi Beker served in the Israel Defense Forces and rose to the rank of captain.

He was a member of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations (1977–1982) and a delegate to five United Nations General Assemblies and two special sessions of the General Assembly on disarmament, in 1978 and 1982 respectively.

He also served as regular columnist for the Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Times of Israel.

Beker also was a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Diaspora Museum Beit Hatfutsnot in Tel Aviv, of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, of the Board of Trustees of Bar-Ilan University, of the WIZO College of Design and Management, and of the Africa Israel Hotels Corporation.