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ISRAELIROMANIAN RELATIONS
AT THE
END OF THE CEAUESCU ERA

As Observed by Israel's
Ambassador to Romania,
198589

IsraeliRomanian Relations
at the
End of the Ceauescu Era

As Observed by Israel's
Ambassador to Romania,
198589

YOSEF GOVRIN

First Published in 2002 by
FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS

This edition published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 2002 Y. Govrin

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Israeli-Romanian relations at the end of the Ceausescu era
1. Israel Foreign relations Romania 2. Romania Foreign relations Israel 19441989. 3. Israel Politics and government 19671993 4. Romania Politics and government 19441989
I. Govrin, Yosef
327.5694049809048

ISBN 0-7146-5234-2 (cloth)
ISSN 1368-4795

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Govrin, Yosef.
Israeli-Romanian relations at the end of the Ceausescu era/by Yosef Govrin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-7146-5234-2 (cloth)
1. Israel Foreign relations Romania. 2. Romania Foreign relations
Israel. 3. Govrin, Yosef. 4. Ambassadors Israel Biography. I. Title.

DS119.8.R6 G67 2002
327.56940498-dc21

A catalog record for this book is available
from the Library of Congress

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book.

To my wife Hanna,
to our daughter Liora and to our son David
with love

Contents

My profound gratitude goes to the L. Davis Institute for International Relations of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to its former director, Dr Sasson Sofer of the Faculty of International Relations of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for their support and encouragement to carry out this research.

To Dr Raphael Vago of the Faculty of History of the Tel Aviv University for his wise advice in the writing of this book; to Professor Yosef Hacker, chairman of the Academic Committee of the Magnes Press of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to its director, Dan Benovici, for their important remarks towards the book's publication by the Magnes Press (in Hebrew); to Frank Cass Publishers for publishing this book in English so that it could also serve the English-speaking world.

To Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to Israel's Ministers Committee for giving me permission to publish this book.

I wish to note the devotion shown in copyediting this text by Ms Fern Seckbach.

Last but not least, to my wife, Hanna, who closely assisted me in carrying out my functions during my mission as Israel's ambassador to Romania. Thanks to her the writing of this book was possible.

Yosef Govrin
Jerusalem 1999

Between pages 178179

This book explores for the first time in the historiography of Israel's foreign policy, Israel's relations with Romania, in the twilight of President Nicolae Ceauescu's communist era, as I observed them during my mission as Israel's ambassador to Romania in the years 198589, in the following domains:

The internal and external policy of Romania that led gradually to a sharp decline in President Ceauescu's status such as he had never experienced in the whole period of his rule (196589). The wave of revolt against him, within his own people, reached its peak when his regime was overthrown by masses of Romanians in revolt, while he himself was executed on 25 December 1989 in a court martial improvised by the emissaries of the anti-communist revolution in Romania.

The political dialogue that took place between, on the one side Israel's leaders and myself, and Romania's leaders and their representatives on the other, on the subject of the Israeli-Arab conflict and how to promote its settlement. This was an intensive dialogue in volume and substance. To a certain degree, it may be said that it prepared the ground for the Madrid peace conference (1991) and the Oslo Agreements (1993).

Our diplomatic activities, during my tenure of office in Romania that ran parallel to the last four years of its communist regime aimed at (further) developing and strengthening of Israeli Romanian bilateral relations in the political field, in trade and economy, in culture and science as well as constantly cultivating our connections with the Jewish communities throughout Romania. We were also attempting to create, even under the rigid circumstances of the communist regime, public consciousness for the need to uncover through research and memorial events the atrocities, mass killings and cruel deportations which the fascist regime of Romania, under the rule of General Ion Antonescu (194144) committed against the Jewish population in Bessarabia, Bucovina and Transnistria a tragic chapter of history which the communist regime of Romania officially ignored in its historiography.

I hope that the relationship between the description of the main events of historic significance which took place in all these three domains, and my accompanying evaluations as observed during my diplomatic mission to Romania will serve as a documentary source for researchers and for all those interested in knowing this period, perhaps the most thrilling in the history of Israeli-Romanian relations and the most dramatic in the internal and external policies of Romania during its communist regime.

I based the material for this book based on the following sources:

The reports of my political talks held with Romanian ministers and government representatives, mainly officials of the Romanian Ministry for External Affairs and the Romanian Communist Party (RCP), with my colleagues the foreign ambassadors accredited at that time to Romania, and with local personalities all accompanied by assessments I made during my mission to Romania.

The verbatim of the dialogue held by Israel's leaders with President Ceauescu and his emissaries, both in Romania and Israel.

Romanian press reports and commentaries that reliably reflect Romania's policies during the period of this survey

Statistical data of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania on the demographic situation of the Jews in Romania, as well as the information given to me by the heads of the various Jewish communities during my visits to their localities.

Thus far no academic research on IsraeliRomanian relations in the late Ceauescu era has been carried out. Yet, regarding the period prior to the one surveyed in this book, readers will find useful the memoirs (in Hebrew) of two Israeli ambassadors who preceded me in Romania. Their books are an important source of information:

Eliezer Doron, ambassador to Romania 196769, Betatzpit U-ve-Imut: Mi-Yomano shel Shagrir Israel, (Observing and Confronting: From the Diary of Israel's Ambassador) (Jerusalem: Keter, 1978). His book contains fragments of his talks with Ceauescu on political matters.

Abba Gefen, ambassador to Romania 197882, Eshnab la-Masakh ha-Barzel (A Small Window into the Iron Curtain) (Jerusalem: Maariv, 1983). His book combines memoirs with the political Israeli-Romanian dialogue on the Israeli-Arab dispute. The book also contains an important chapter on the Jewish communities in Romania.

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