Esther Herlitz

Esther Herlitz (Hebrew: אסתר הרליץcode: he is deprecated , 9 October 1921 – 24 March 2016) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1973 and 1977 and again from 1979 until 1981. She was also Israel's first female ambassador, having been appointed as the country's ambassador to Denmark in 1966.

Esther Herlitz
Date of birth	9 October 1921
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Year of aliyah	1933
Date of death	24 March 2016(2016-03-24) (aged 94)
Knessets	8, 9
Faction represented in Knesset
1974–1977	Alignment
1979–1981	Alignment

Herlitz died on 24 March 2016 in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.