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Mordechai Gazit

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “advisor to israeli prime minister golda meir”. Today it says “israeli diplomat”.
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Mordechai Gazit ( ) was an advisor to Israeli prime minister Golda Meir .1 He was also Israeli ambassador to France and director-general of the Israeli foreign ministry.2 Gazit was a member of the Haganah and fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . He received his master's degree in archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Gazit has rejected the argument that Israel missed an opportunity to make peace with Egypt from 1970-1973 after Anwar Sadat became Egypt's president. He has also rejected the claim that Jordan's King Hussein warned Meir about the impending Arab attack on Israel in 1973.3

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advisor to israeli prime minister golda meir

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israeli diplomat

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