Former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who helped convince the United Nations to approve creation of the State of Israel in 1947 and defended its policies for decades afterward, died Sunday, hospital officials said. He was 87. Eban, born Aubrey Solomon Meir in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 2, 1915, immigrated to Israel in 1946 after serving a short stint in the British intelligence corps during World War Two. Eban served as Israel's UN ambassador and envoy to the United States when the state was created, and was the country's foreign minister from 1966 to 1974, one of the most...