Shlomo Ginossar (October 16, 1889 – January 1, 1969) was a Zionist activist and Israeli diplomat.

Biography

He was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Shlomo Ginzberg, (later Ginossar) immigrated with his family from Russian to the Ottoman Empire as a young man. He was the son of Ahad Ha'am.

Shlomo Ginossar

His future wife, Rosa, was the daughter of family friends. In 1910, they studied at the University of Paris together and married in Switzerland in 1917.

Shlomo Ginossar

He was the chief Administrator of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel’s Ambassador to Italy from 1959 until 1961.

Shlomo Ginossar

Ginossar was a resident of Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. He died in Tel Aviv.

References

Ambassadors of Israel to Italy

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

University of Paris alumni

Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire

Israeli academic administrators

Odesa Jews

Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in France

Burials at Har HaMenuchot