By HERB KEINON, TOVAH LAZAROFFabramovich 88(photo credit: )
Foreign Ministry Director-General Aaron Abramovich, one of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's must trusted advisers and someone who was expected to be a part of her inner circle if she became prime minister, announced Sunday night that he is resigning from public service.
The surprise announcement came after a meeting he had with Livni.
Abramovich is expected to remain in his post until Livni appoints a new foreign minister - if she forms a government - or until a general election is held and another prime minister fills the foreign minister's post.
Abramovich, who previously served as director-general of the Jewish Agency, became director-general of the Justice Ministry in 2001, and continued in that capacity under Livni when she became justice minister.
While in that post he dealt with the myriad of legal issues relating to the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria in 2005.
When Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appointed Livni foreign minister, she brought Abramovich with her, largely to coordinate the "convergence plan," which was the proposal at the time to withdraw from areas beyond the security barrier in the West Bank.
Ministry sources said Abramovich was a very low-profile director-general, with little impact on the negotiations with the Palestinians - where Livni turned her focus after the convergence plan was discarded.
He did not have much success in solving the personal and administrative problems that he inherited and that continue to plague the ministry, the sources said.
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