Shlomo Ginossar

Shlomo Ginossar was a Zionist activist and Israeli diplomat.

Biography

He was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Shlomo Ginzberg, immigrated with his family from Russian to the Ottoman Empire as a young man. He was the son of Ahad Ha'am.
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.
He was the chief Administrator of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel's Ambassador to Italy from 1949 until 1951.
Ginossar was a resident of Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. He died in Tel Aviv.