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Meir Weltmann Touval
Meir Weltmann Touval (1905-1982), was a prominent Zionist leader in Yugoslavia before the Second World War. He was a member of the Rescue Mission (Va'ad Ha'hatzala) in Istanbul during the war1, and later served as Israel's ambassador to Hungary2.

His son, Saadia Touval (1932-2008), was a political scientist and a leading mediation theorist.3

1 See, among other sources, Emil Kerenji, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1942–1943, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, esp. pp. 154-156; and http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/wrb/wrb0547.pdf

2 https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Hungary.aspx

3https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403637.html