Political dialogue, intellectual life and shared remembrance. Six moments from contemporary reporting and archival records illuminate Gazit’s work as ambassador.
A June 1976 JTA report places Gazit at Prime Minister Jacques Chirac’s meeting with Israeli Health Minister Victor Shemtov and French Health Minister Simone Veil. It also records an earlier audience with President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, documenting continued political dialogue between the two countries.[D22]
16 June 1976. Complete article read. This is the dispatch’s publication date, not a separately verified meeting date.
At the Israeli embassy in Paris, Gazit attended the presentation of a Hebrew University honorary doctorate to Jean-Paul Sartre. Edwin Eytan’s contemporary JTA report records his agreement with Sartre’s desire for peace, alongside differences over how to achieve it. Simone de Beauvoir and Culture Minister Françoise Giroud also attended.[D18][A3]
The archive identifies Sartre, de Beauvoir and Gazit. The photograph requires a licence for reuse.
The Rhode Island Herald, 26 November 1976, p. 11. Complete article read in the original scan. The JTA archive’s 9 November version is the same report.
8 November 1976, Israeli embassy, Paris. Editorial image 2196137672; object grk7730798. Caption and catalogue checked. Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Rights-managed; no licence acquired.
Gazit sought a meeting to renew Israel’s invitation to Industry and Research Minister Michel d’Ornano, whose visit was postponed after the Abu Daoud affair.[D19]
25 February 1977.
Le Monde reported Gazit’s Tribune juive interview: Israel had not conditioned a proposed Rabin visit to France on a reciprocal French leadership visit.[D20]
28 March 1977. interview published 25 March.
Following the Coastal Road attack, Gazit asked French Foreign Minister Louis de Guiringaud to close the PLO information office in Paris. Contemporary JTA reporting documents the diplomatic request.[D23]
15 March 1978. Complete article read, including the section on the request to close the PLO office.
A French Jewish veterans’ bulletin records that the Bagneux remembrance ceremony was held under the joint patronage of Gazit and French Secretary of State for Veterans Maurice Plantier. It commemorated Jewish soldiers who died for France, Israel’s thirtieth anniversary, and thirty-five years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.[D21]
July 1978, no. 162, pp. 1–2 (PDF pp. 9–10). Relevant report and address passages read in the scans. Digitized by Mémorial de la Shoah.
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