frustration over recent political developments in Africa and the Middle East. She mentions "the downhill deterioration" in Ivory Coast and that Angola was still "corruption stricken". About the situation in the Middle East she says in her letter "I am tired of feeling like Don Quixote who tries to tilt at the windmills of deteriorating reality in this country". A close friend of Tamar Golan, who was with her among the first residents of Kibbutz Lahav, told Haaretz that Golan suffered from deteriorating health—"her body betrayed her, and she could not bear it anymore", she said. See also Angola–Israel relations References External links In memory page on the Tamar Golan Africa Centre website, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 1933 births 2011 suicides Ambassadors of Israel to Angola Columbia University alumni Israeli journalists People from Haifa Suicides in Israel Israeli women journalists Israeli women ambassadors