Tekoah (Tukachinsky), Yosef (Joe)

Birth Name Tekoah (Tukachinsky), Yosef (Joe)
Call Name Yosef
Gender male
Age at Death 66 years, 1 month, 12 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth March 4, 1925   Yosef (Tukachinsky) Tekoah was born on Belarus

 
Graduation   Shanghai Yosef (Tukachinsky) Tekoah earned his law degree at the University l'Aurore

 
Graduation 1948 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America Yosef (Tukachinsky) Tekoah earned his MA, International Relations

 
Marriage     Yosef (Tukachinsky) Tekoah married Ruth Weidenfeld

 
Occupation 1968   Yosef Tekoah served as Israel's representative at the United Nations for seven years

Event Note

In 1974, Yosef Tekoah rebutted a speech delivered in the General Assembly, by Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Mr. Arafat called for a common Palestinian state that would include Muslims, Jews and Christians.
Yosef Tekoah denounced the proposal, saying it would assure the destruction of Israel and its replacement by an Arab state.
He said the P.L.O. had shown its true colors "by the only currency it uses -- the blood of innocent civilians."

 
Occupation   אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב (Ben-Gurion University in the Negev), באר-שבע, הנגב, מחוז הדרום, מדינת ישראל Yosef Tekoah served as Chancellor

 
Death April 16, 1991 New York, New York, United States of America Yosef (Tukachinsky) Tekoah died at St. Vincent's Hospital, at age 65 years

 

Pedigree

    1. Tekoah (Tukachinsky), Yosef (Joe)