{{Short description|Israeli politician}} {{more footnotes|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sallai Meridor | image = Sallai Meridor, May 2009 (cropped).JPG | image_size = 162px | office = [[List of Israeli ambassadors to the United States|Israeli Ambassador to the United States]] | term_start = 2006 | term_end = 2009 | predecessor = [[Daniel Ayalon]] | successor = [[Michael Oren]] | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1955}} | birth_place = [[Jerusalem]] | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] | native_name_lang = he | native_name = סלי מרידור }} '''Sallai Meridor''' ({{langx|he|סלי מרידור}}; born 1955) is an Israeli politician. He was the [[List of Israeli ambassadors to the United States|Israeli Ambassador to the United States]] between 2005–2009, appointed by Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]].
==Career== Meridor was an aide to [[Moshe Arens]] when he was the [[Foreign Minister of Israel]] in the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9yONBwAAQBAJ|author=Dennis Ross|title=Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama|page=231|isbn=978-0374709488|date=October 13, 2015|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York}}</ref>
Meridor served as the Chairman of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] and the [[World Zionist Organization]] from 1999–2005, Treasurer of the Jewish Agency and WZO and as the Head of the Settlement Division of the WZO. Meridor also serves as the international chairman for the [[Jerusalem Foundation]].<ref name="chart">{{cite web |url=http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/uploads//Org%20Chart.pdf |title=Organizational Chart |publisher=The Jerusalem Foundation |accessdate=23 April 2012 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Family== Meridor's father was [[Eliyahu Meridor]], the Commander of the [[Irgun]] (Etzel) and member of [[Knesset]].
Meridor's older brother [[Dan Meridor]] was a minister in several Israeli governments. His two other older siblings are Haggit Hurvitz, Head of Pediatrics at the Bikur Holim Hospital, and Avital Darmon, Director of the Applied Research Initiative in Education.
Dan Meirdor's son is [[Shaul Meridor]], the deputy director of the Allocation Branch at the Ministry of Finance. Another nephew of Sallai Meridor is [[Eli Hurvitz (Meridor)]], son of Haggit Hurvitz, and the executive director of [[the Eddie and Jules Trump Foundation]].
==See also== *[[List of Israeli ambassadors to the United States]] *[[Israel-United States relations]] *[[Jewish Agency for Israel]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/smeridor.html|title=Sallai Meridor|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library}} *{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-names-sallai-meridor-as-new-ambassador-to-u-s-1.200540|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102141636/http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-names-sallai-meridor-as-new-ambassador-to-u-s-1.200540|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|title=Israel names Sallai Meridor as new ambassador to U.S|newspaper=Haaretz|date=2006-10-04|last1=Benn|first1=Aluf|last2=Barkat|first2=Amiram}} *{{cite web|work=New York Sun|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/53721|title=Israeli Envoy To U.S. Stands Behind Olmert|date=May 3, 2007}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/board_content.aspx?MID=546&CID=555&SID=705&ID=2976|title=Sallai Meridor|publisher=The Jerusalem Foundation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327162914/http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/board_content.aspx?MID=546&CID=555&SID=705&ID=2976|archive-date=2012-03-27}}
==External links== *{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/oct/5/20061005-104820-6189r/ |title=New envoy shares Olmert views |work=Washington Times |date=2006-10-05 |accessdate=2011-09-07 |author=Joshua Mitnick}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/28/america/NA_GEN_US_Mideast.php |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824012215/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/28/america/NA_GEN_US_Mideast.php |archivedate=2007-08-24 |title=Israel's new ambassador to U.S. says Israelis still hope for peace, but rockets must stop |agency=Associated Press |work=International Herald-Tribune |date=November 28, 2006 |accessdate=2011-09-07}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/9600/ |title=Personal Voyage Leads Ambassador to U.S |work=Forward |date=2006-12-08 |accessdate=2011-09-07 |author=Nathan Guttman}} *{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801056.html |author=David Ignatius |title=Walking a Tightrope Into 2007 |work=Washingtonpost.com |date=December 29, 2006 |accessdate=2011-09-07}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jan/31/20070131-115117-2811r/ |title=Israeli envoy rejects Mideast 'linkage' |work=Washington Times |date=January 31, 2007 |accessdate=2011-09-07 |author=David R. Sands}} *{{cite web |author=Robert Siegel |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7555508 |title=Israeli Envoy Calls for Resolve on Iran, Hamas |publisher=NPR |date=February 22, 2007 |accessdate=2011-09-07}} *{{cite web|last=Pleming |first=Sue |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-israel-idUSN1836217920070418 |title=Israel urges tough diplomacy this year on Iran |publisher=Reuters |date=April 18, 2007 |accessdate=2011-09-07}} *{{Cite web|url=http://support.jnf.org/site/DocServer/CNN-Israel_to_name_forest_in_honor_of_Coretta_Scott_King.pdf?docID=1561 |title=Israel to name forest in honor of Coretta Scott King |publisher=CNN.com |date= April 26, 2007|accessdate=2011-09-07}} *{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3395108,00.html |title=Israeli ambassador to US offers reassurances to Syria |newspaper=Ynetnews |publisher=Ynetnews.com |date=2007-02-05 |accessdate=2011-09-07}} *{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6463534/Day-of-anger.html |title=Day of anger (Embassy Row) |work=Washington Times |date=2007-04-24 |accessdate=2011-09-11 |author=James Morrison}} *''Press Statement:'' <!--http://www.embassyofisrael.org/articles/2007/April/.htm--> Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor Reacts to Tragedy at Virginia Tech; April 17, 2007 {{Israeli ambassadors to the United States}}
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