13 Facts About Zalman Shoval

Zalman Shoval is an Israeli banker, politician and diplomat.

Zalman Shoval attended first the Ben-Yehuda School and then the "Geula" high school in Tel Aviv before obtaining a BA at UC Berkeley, and an MA at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Zalman Shoval joined David Ben-Gurion when he left to found Rafi in 1965, and then again when Ben-Gurion founded the State List in 1969.

When Ben-Gurion resigned from the Knesset in May 1970 Zalman Shoval took his place.

Shortly before the 1973 elections, the State List joined other groups to form the Likud, and Zalman Shoval was returned to the Knesset as a Likud MK.

Whilst he missed out on election to the Knesset in that year's elections, Rafi-Ometz merged back into Likud in 1986, and in 1988 Zalman Shoval was elected back into the Knesset as a Likud MK.

Zalman Shoval resigned from the Knesset in October 1990 in order to become Israeli Ambassador to the United States, a post he held until 1993, and again between 1998 and 2000.

Zalman Shoval continued in this task after the change of the Israeli government in May 1999.

Zalman Shoval, together with a number of friends, in 1977 founded the "Moshe Dayan Public Forum for Political and Social Questions", a non-partisan public affairs society, and in 1983 he was among the founders of the "Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies" at Tel Aviv University, and is a member of its board of trustees.

Zalman Shoval was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hadassah Medical Organization.

Zalman Shoval was, until his appointment as Ambassador, Chairman of the New Israel Opera.

Zalman Shoval is a member of the Board of Trustees of Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities, of the Dayan Center and of the International Board of Governors of the Ariel University Center of Samaria.

Zalman Shoval is a member of all the Likud's Central Bodies.