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Events on Sunday 17 November 2002 1
1915 – 2002Abba Eban (1915-2002)Died 17 November 2002, aged 87Abba Eban was Israel's ambassador to the United Nations and the United States in its early years and later its foreign minister during the wars of 1967 and 1973. Celebrated as an orator in several languages, he presented Israel's case to the world with unusual polish. In his last decades he wrote and presented histories of the Jewish people and of diplomacy.