Shmuel Tolkowsky | |
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Born | 27 June 1886 |
Died | 19 December 1965 | (aged 79)
Shmuel Tolkowsky (27 June 1886 - 19 December 1965) was a Belgian-born agronomist, Zionist and Israeli diplomat. He became the assistant to Chaim Weizmann and Nachum Sokolov, two important leaders of the Zionist Movement. Shmuel Tolkowsky himself was the son-in-law of Yitzhak Goldberg, a founder of the Jewish Foundation Fund. [1]
Dan Tolkowsky was his son. [2]
Born in Antwerp, Belgium, he emigrated to Israel in 1911. He began serving as Consul General in Switzerland in 1949 until he was promoted to Minister in 1951. [3] [4]
We Zionists look upon the fate of the Armenian people with a deep and sincere sympathy; we do so as men, as Jews, and as Zionists.
— Shmuel Tolkowsky, The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide By Yair Auron, Cathy Collins Block, Michael Pressley, p. 1
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