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The Jewish Floridian of Tampa
Friday, November 18,
1983
Trigor Takes Over as Israel's
Consul General for Florida and P.R.
Yehoshua Trigor has been ap-
pointed Consul General of the
Israel Consulate in Miami
serving Florida and Puerto Rico.
He succeeds Joel Arnon, who will
be assigned to another post in the
Foreign Ministry after serving
for five years as Consul General
in Atlanta and Miami.
The Miami assignment folows
Trigor's serving two years as
consul General in Atlanta,
loining Trigor in the Miami
 -ifice are Vice Consul Dorit
Shavit and Consul for Trade ana
Investment to the Southeast Avi
Harpaz.
"My task is to disseminate as
much information to the public as
I can, as widely as I can," Trigor
told The Jewish Floridian of
Tampa last Friday on his first
Tampa visit.
"In the United States alone,
the Arabs spend $1 million a day
on propaganda," Trigor
emphasized. "We depend on how
much faith Jews have in Israel, in
their own people. To that end we
advocate more Jewish schools 
Code Started Mobilization
TEL AVIV (JTA) Israel Radio repeatedly
broadcast 14 code words Nov. 9 ordering military
reservists to report to predetermined assembly points.
The mobilization exercise for service personnel and
vehicles was planned some time ago, and military
spokesmen stressed it was not hostile in intent or a
response to the mobilization of Syria's reserves ordered
last week
THAT MESSAGE was directed especially toward
Damascus in an effort to reduce the tension which
escalated after the truck bomb attack on Israeli military
headquarters in Tyre. The Israelis held Syria responsible,
at least indirectly, but insisted that Israel was not
threatening any country.
Military spokesmen said the mobilization drill would
be of short duration.
Shultz Will Address
Assembly in Atlanta
NEW YORK IJT \\ -
Secretary of State George
Shultz has accepted an
invitation from the Council
of Jewish Federations to
address its 52nd General
Assembly Saturday night
in Atlanta, Ga.
Shultz will address the
Assembly on the topic of "U.S.
Foreign Policy Goals: Achieving
a Just and Peaceful World
Order." This will mark the first
time in several years that a high
* Administration official will
address the GA.
On Thursday evening, Presi-
dent Chaim Herzog of Israel was
to address a major plenary
session. Among other featured
speakers at the GA will be
Ambassador Meir Rosenne of
israel, author Elie Wiesel. and
CJF President Martin Citrin.
DURING THE GA, which be-
gan Wednesday and concludes
Sunday, there will be, among
the numerous plenary meetings
and workshops, sessions on
Soviet Jewry, Ethiopian Jews,
Israel-diaspora relations, the
Middle East, the "new anti-
Semitism," and aliya.
At one of the sessions, the
Public Assistance and Unem-
ployment Compensation Sub-
committee of the House Ways
and Means Committee will hold a
hearing on the effects of federal
budget cuts and unemployment
on Jews, Jewish agencies and
other human service providers.
More than 2,500 Jewish leaders
from the United States and
Canada are expected to attend
the GA, according to Osias
Goren, of Los Angeles.
more study. The more study, the
more people will know who the
Jews are, what they represent
and what kind of people they are.
It Is important to remember:
Western logic does not apply to
an Eastern situation."
Speaking of the American
troops being in Lebanon. Trigor
quoted President Reagan as
repeatedly stating that the
Americans are in Lebanon at the
request of the Lebanese govern-
ment as part of the multi-national
force. "Israel did not invite them
and has nothing to do with their
remaining in Lebanon," Trigor
said.
Trigor was educated at the Tel
Aviv School for Law and Econo-
mics and is a graduate of the
National Service College in Jeru-
salem.
After two years with the State
Comptrollers Office, he was
transferred to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, and Trigor's
first post was at the Embassy of
Israel in Australia.
Trigor has also served as
Charge d'Affaires at the Embas-
sies of Israel in Seoul, South
Korea, and in Malta. He was
Deputy Chief of Mission and
Charge d'Affaires of the Embas-
sy of Israel in The Hague,
Netherlands, and was in charge
of the Israeli Consular Mission in
India.
During his tenure there, Trigor
participated as a member of the
Israel delegation in the 33rd
meeting of the UN Economic and
Social Council for Asia and the
Pacific held in New Delhi. He also
headed a special technical assist-
ance Embassy to the Republic of
the Maldives. From 1959-1965. he
served as Vice Consul in Atlanta
and later was Consul in Los
Angeles.
A Mnister Counselor of the
Israeli Foreign Service, Trigor
has at the same time combined
his diplomatic duties with public
speaking engagements before
civic groups, universities, the
United Jewish Appeal and Israel
Bonds. He is the recipient of a
UJA national M an-on-1 he-Go
Award and has traveled widely as
a special UJA emissary to Peru,
Trinidad, Barbados, Haiti and
Jamaica.
Trigor served four months in
1977 as special emissary to Aus-
tralia and New Zealand. While on
home tour in Israel, he was
Deputy Director of the Official
Guests Division of the Israel
Foreign Ministry. He previously
served as a senior referant to the
Asia-Pacific Bureau of the
Foreign Ministry and in 1977-
1979 a* dbecter of the Israel
Youth Information Program in
the U.S.A.
While serving as Consul I
General for the SoutheastajJ
United states in Atlanta, he waj
awarded a medal for Meritorious
Diplomatic Service by the Israel
Foreign Ministry.
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