Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Argov, who was almost totally incapacitated by a would-be assassin's bullet in 1982, died last night in Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital at the age of 74. He was Ambassador to Britain when, on June 3, 1982, an Arab shot him in the head, causing him wounds from which he never recovered. The assassination attempt was the main official reason for the Peace on Galilee War that Israel launched two weeks later.
Attorney-General Eliyakim Rubenstein, who had regularly visited the comatose ambassador, said, “I knew him as one of the best in the foreign service, one of the finest in public service, intelligent, and a great representative of the State of Israel for many years.”
Attorney-General Eliyakim Rubenstein, who had regularly visited the comatose ambassador, said, “I knew him as one of the best in the foreign service, one of the finest in public service, intelligent, and a great representative of the State of Israel for many years.”