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Shlomo Argov - Life up to 1982
Argov was born in Jerusalem in 1929 into a family that had lived in the city for seven generations. He joined the Palmach as a teenager, and joined the Israeli Defense Force when it was formed in 1948. Argov was wounded in the Battle of Safed during the Israeli War of Independence, but continued in the military.
In 1950, he moved to Washington D.C. to study for a BA in foreign relations at Georgetown University, from which he graduated in 1952. He followed that up with an MA in international relations at the London School of Economics in 1955.
His diplomatic career began in 1959. Argov served in a variety of positions, in Ghana, Nigeria, Washington (under then-ambassador Yitzhak Rabin), and New York, in addition to those in Jerusalem.
His first senior diplomatic posting came in 1971, when Argov became Israel's Ambassador to Mexico, where he would remain until 1974. After a stint as Deputy Director General of Information at the Ministry for Foreign Relations, Argov was appointed Ambassador to the Netherlands in 1977. He would serve in that role for two years, before being promoted to Ambassador to the United Kingdom, one of the highest roles in the Israeli foreign service, in 1979.
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