Shertok

[sher-tohk]

noun

1. Moshe Sharett, Moshe.

Example Sentences

Yet Gorenberg also notices that Moshe Shertok, a future prime minister of Israel, saw a distinction in the early years of the war between the Nazi invasion of Poland that had already happened and the Nazi invasion of Palestine that was feared in the future: “It’s possible that there will be atrocities here,” Shertok said.

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Shertok was in New York, where the final version of the partition plan was being hammered out.

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A good example of that concern is an October 1947 telegram from Moshe Shertok to David Ben-Gurion.

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Shertok was the "foreign minister" of the Jewish Agency, part of autonomous government of the Jewish community in Palestine; Ben-Gurion was head of the Agency.

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Were the U.N. plan to include a population transfer, that would be ideal, Shertok implies, but this was not in the cards.

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