Her family is typical of that of a melting pot society. Her father was born in Bessarabia, which he left in 1932. After studying at the Sorbonne, he went on to Mozambique, then Brazil, then all over South America, settling eventually in El Salvador. Her mother was born in Chile, where the ambassador's grandmother had come after leaving Ukraine in 1904, having first lived in Argentina. Her parents met when the ambassador's father was invited to a wedding in San Diego; they were en- gaged two weeks later, and her mother moved to El Salvador where the ambassador was born. Like many retired diplomats, Gun de Hasenson will not entirely disappear from the diplomatic scene. She will remain on theguest lists of many diplomatic mis- sions, particularly those of Latin America, and she will continue visiting Palestinian Salvadorians, most of whom live in Bethlehem. Although she was not assigned to the Palestinian Authority, she started taking care of the Palestinian Salvadorians before the Oslo Accords, and simply kept upthe connection. In fact, Latin America in general has been outstanding in the number of Jewish diplomats it has sent to Israel, and some countries such as Guatemala, Colombia and Chile have sent Jewish ambassadors on more than one occasion. Ambassadors from Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Uruguay have also been Jewish. During World War II, Latin American diplomats serving in Europe were active in saving Jews.