Shmuel Tolkowsky

Shmuel Tolkowsky (Hebrew: שמואל טולקובסקי; 27 June 1886 – 19 December 1965) was a Belgian-born agronomist, Zionist and Israeli diplomat. He became the assistant to Chaim Weizmann and Nachum Sokolov, two important leaders of the Zionist Movement. Shmuel Tolkowsky himself was the son-in-law of Yitzhak Goldberg, a founder of the Jewish Foundation Fund.

He was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and during World War I he was in the Belgian Army and moved to London with his wife. Two daughters were born in London. His son Dan Tolkowsky was born in Tel Aviv in 1921.

He emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He began serving as Israeli Consul General in Switzerland in 1949 until he was promoted to Minister in 1951.