Goedkoop Envoy to Moscow Memoirs of an Israeli Ambassador, 1988-92 – Aryeh Levin

On 3 January 1991, Aryeh Levin raised the flag over the Israeli consulate in Moscow for the first time in 24 years. Mr. Levin’s sojourn in a hostile Russian capital from 1988 to the presentation of his credentials in 1991 takes place against a background of earthshaking events. His four-year tenure is a struggle to establish Soviet-Israeli relations on a solid footing and to facilitate the immigration of almost half a million Russian Jews. It is also a battle against misconceptions and narrow-mindedness on …