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- ↑ "General Info: Ambassador", Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), accessed 8 November 2010. Archived by WebCite on 8 November 2010.
- ↑ Hindenburg, Hannfried von (2007). Demonstrating Reconciliation: State and Society in West German Foreign Policy Toward Israel, 1952–1965, Berghahn Books, p. 57.
- ↑ "Israels neuer Mann in Berlin". 29 August 2017.