---
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
  - Person
  - Israel
  - Diplomat
  - Military
summary: "Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C."
born: 1929-06-23
died: 2003-09-23
location: "Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine"
---

Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to [[Washington, D.C.]] During the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]], he made a series of urgent telephone calls to [[Henry A. Kissinger]], then Secretary of State, focusing on the need for resupply for the Israeli military. Dinitz's insistence on a one-on-one meeting with Kissinger, where he reportedly conveyed [[Golda Meir]]'s willingness to come to the [[United States]] personally to plead for arms aid, was described by Kissinger as potentially "hysteria or blackmail."[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 17.