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About Torleiv Anda
- Torleiv Anda (20 April 1921 – 18 September 2013) was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party. He studied at the University of Oslo during the 1940s.
- After the 1943 University of Oslo fire he was incarcerated together with hundreds of other students and shipped to "readjustment" camps in Germany.
- He was incarcerated in Stavern for some time, then from December 1943 he was incarcerated in Sennheim and Buchenwald until the war's end.
- He finally graduated with the cand.mag.
- degree in 1948, and spent three years in the Ministry of Social Affairs before he was hired in the cultural department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- He became press attaché in the United States in 1959, later in West Germany.
- He was also an embassy counsellor in London before returning home as assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970.
- He was promoted to sub-director in 1973.Anda then served as an ambassador, first to PR China from 1975 to 1979, then to Canada from 1979 to 1984 and Israel from 1984 to 1989.
- Soon after retiring he released the book Intifada – opprør mot Israel, describing his personal views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
- He criticized Israel over responsibility for the human rights violations in the region.
- Already towards the end of his ambassador tenure he had compared the situation to the German occupation of Norway.
- In February 1988, he was forced to issue an apology for a statement he made to reporters, comparing the Israeli state to the German government under the Nazis.He also served as a member of the city council in Mandal, where he had bought a cabin in Skjernøysund in 1963.
- He resided at Jar during his diplomatic career, but moved to Mandal upon his retirement.
- He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
- Olav.
- He died in September 2013, aged 92.
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