Shlomo Argov was born in Jerusalem in 1929, the descendant of family which has lived in Jerusalem for seven generations. As a young man and a member of the Palmach, he was wounded in the 1948 War of Independence. Shlomo Argov studied in Washington and London and joined the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1959. A senior and distinguished diplomat, he held a number of positions in the Ministry, serving among others as Ambassador to Mexico (1971-1974) and the Netherlands (1977-1979) before assuming his post as Ambassador to Britain in 1979. On the night of June 3, 1982, Ambassador...