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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox Minister Elias Rababi (1913–1999) was a Lebanese journalist and politician who served as the general secretary of the Kataeb Party. He was also Lebanese ambassador to Germany and Argentina. His other significant post was the editor-in-chief of the Kataeb Party's newspaper, Al Amal.

Biography

Born in 1913 Rababi was a Maronite and a member of the Kataeb Party.[1] Following the establishment of the party in 1936 he was appointed its regional director and actively involved in the recruitment activities.[2] He was the candidate of the party in the by-election on 4 May 1945 in Mount Lebanon.[3] However, not Rababi but Philippe Takla won the seat.[3][4] The party's newspapers, Al Amal and Action, were also edited by him for a long time,[1] and Rababi headed the propaganda and press department of the party.[5]

Rababi was one of the persons who developed early connections between the Israeli officials and the Kataeb Party in the period 1948–1951.[1][6] In the 1950 meeting they discussed the financial assistance of Israel to the party concerning the preparations for the next general elections.[6] Rababi also organized a meeting between Pierre Gemayel, Kataeb leader, and Yehoshua Palmon, an Israeli diplomat, in Switzerland in 1950.[7] These contacts were first uncovered by an Israeli journalist and historian, Benny Morris, who wrote for The Jerusalem Post in 1983.[8]

Rababi was the ambassador of Lebanon to Germany between 9 October 1959 and 1 October 1962.[9] Then he served as the ambassador of Lebanon to Argentina until February 1966.[10] He died in December 1999.[11]

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