Moshe Arad [SEP] country of citizenship
Moshe Arad
Moshe Arad (born August 15, 1934 in Romania) is the former ambassador from Israel to Mexico (1983–1987) and the former ambassador from Israel to the United States (1987–1990). He emigrated to Israel in 1950.
While Israel's Ambassador to the United States, he accused the group Al-Haq of being a front for Yasser Arafat’s PLO and stated that "most of its members are supporters of Fatah and other members of the PLO terrorist organization."
Arad currently serves on the
alarmed the government of President Ion Iliescu, and he was forbidden to visit Romania, being denied entry twice in 1994 and 1995.
In 1997, after Iliescu's defeat by Emil Constantinescu, the Romanian government restored Michael's citizenship and again allowed him to visit the country. He then lived partly in Switzerland at Aubonne and partly in Romania, either at Săvârșin Castle in Arad County or in an official residence in Bucharest—the Elisabeta Palace—voted by the Romanian Parliament by a law concerning arrangements for former heads of state