Yehuda Zvi Blum
Yehuda Zvi Blum | |
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יהודה צבי בלום | |
6th Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations | |
In office 1978–1984 | |
Preceded by | Chaim Herzog |
Succeeded by | Benjamin Netanyahu |
Personal details | |
Born | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia) | October 2, 1931
Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Yehuda Zvi Blum (Hebrew: יהודה צבי בלום; born 2 October 1931)[1] is an Israeli professor of law and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 1978 to 1984.
Biography
Yehuda Z. Blum was born in
Law career
Blum joined the faculty of
Diplomatic career
In 1968, Blum worked for the
He was a member of the Israeli negotiating team that drafted the peace treaty with Egypt (Camp David Accords) in 1978, the Blair House negotiations in March 1979 and the Israeli legal team at the Taba arbitration talks between Israel and Egypt between 1986 and 1988.[4]
As the Ambassador to the United Nations, Blum was often critical of it, saying that the UN "fans the flames of the Middle East conflict." The New York Times quoted him as saying that "The essence of the
Published works
- Historic Titles in International Law (1965)
- Secure Boundaries and Middle East Peace (1971) (with an introduction by Julius Stone)
- For Zion's Sake (1987)
- Eroding the United Nations Charter (1993)
References
- ^ Profile of Yehuda Zvi Blum
- ISBN 978-0-8453-4809-3. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ Blum, Yehuda Zvi (1961). Historic titles in international law (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- ^ "Faculty of Law website". Hebrew University. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Richard Bernstein (October 1983). "Israeli says UN fans the flames of Middle East conflict". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2010. "For decades now, Arab leaders have obstinately maintained that the whole region from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf must be exclusively Arab, he said."
- ^ "Israeli envoy at UN Scolds 133 Jewish Law Students". The New York Times. May 1983. Retrieved 24 December 2010.