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Shlomo Argov (Hebrew: שלמה ארגוב ; 14 December 1929 – 23 February 2003) was an Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom , whose attempted assassination led to the 1982 Lebanon War .
Shlomo Argov was born in Jerusalem in 1929, the descendant of family which has lived in Jerusalem for seven generations. As a young man and a member of the Palmach, he was wounded in the 1948 War of Independence in the battle for Safed.
Mar 16, 2023 · Shlomo Argov was a career diplomat who served in several countries, including the UK, where he was shot by Palestinian terrorists in 1982. His daughters recall his love for Israel, his family and his tragic fate.
Aug 17, 2022 · One night in June of 1982, dozens of diplomats gathered at the Dorchester for an annual gala event. Before midnight, Shlomo Argov—the eloquent, Jerusalem-born, Georgetown and LSE-educated Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom—left the hotel and headed toward his car. Moments before, in the men’s bathroom of the nearby Hilton Hotel, a ...
Dec 29, 2006 · Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador to the UK, was shot in the head by Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal group on June 3, 1982. The attack paralyzed him permanently, leaving him bedridden ...
May 27, 2012 · A few weeks later, on June 3, 1982, I was stunned by a news flash on the late-evening edition that reported that Shlomo Argov had been shot as he left a banquet at London’s Dorchester Hotel.
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Feb 24, 2003 · Shlomo Argov, 73, a former Israeli ambassador to Britain paralyzed during an assassination attempt in 1982, died Sunday at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. He had required constant medical care ...
