Ehud Avriel

Ehud Avriel (; 19 October 1917 – 27 August 1980) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1955 and 1957.

Biography Born Georg Überall in Vienna in Austria-Hungary, Avriel was educated at the Humanistic Secondary School. Two years later he was moved to Romania where he remained, as head of the legation, until late March 1951, returning to Israel in April.

In 1955 he was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai list. However, he resigned on 31 July 1957, and was appointed ambassador to Ghana and Liberia, a position he held until 1960. He then briefly served as ambassador to the newly-independent Congo-Léopoldville. He later worked as a consul general in Chicago in 1974, and an ambassador for Special Affairs between 1977 and 1979.

He died of a heart attack on 27 August 1980 while giving a lecture on the diaspora of American Jews in Jerusalem, and was buried in the cemetery of Neot Mordechai.