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Category:Polish emigrants to Israel

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David Ben-Gurion [videos]

David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel. — Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in …

David Ben-Gurion - David Ben-Gurion Square—site of the no longer existing house where Ben-Gurion was born, Płońsk, Wspólna Street.

David Ben-Gurion - House at town square in Płońsk, Poland, where David Ben-Gurion grew up

David Ben-Gurion Square—site of the no longer existing house where Ben-Gurion was born, Płońsk, Wspólna Street.

House at town square in Płońsk, Poland, where David Ben-Gurion grew up

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant [videos]

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant the Levi was a Polish-born Israeli naval architect, Hagana member, among the founding fathers of the Israeli navy and was notable for assisting the Israeli Merchant Marine in several major projects, including the nations' first …

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant - Edmond Wilhelm Brillant at Port Said, Egypt, in 1942

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant - PPRD Railway Company C of Hagana Haifa, 1939 – Edmond Brillant is in the first row on the right, with a pistol

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant at Port Said, Egypt, in 1942

PPRD Railway Company C of Hagana Haifa, 1939 – Edmond Brillant is in the first row on the right, with a pistol

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant - Edmond Brillant and his wife Rosita Segal

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant - SS Shalom Project, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, 1963 – Edmond Brillant at the left

Edmond Brillant and his wife Rosita Segal

SS Shalom Project, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, 1963 – Edmond Brillant at the left

Uri Zvi Greenberg [videos]

Uri Zvi Greenberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. — Early life and education — Uri Zvi Greenberg was born in the Galician town Bilyi Kamin, in Austria-Hungary, into a prominent Hasidic …

Uri Zvi Greenberg - Peretz Hirschbein (left), Uri Zvi Greenberg (standing in center), and Alter Kacyzne (wearing glasses) 1922

Uri Zvi Greenberg - Brit HaBirionim founders Abba Ahimeir, Uri Zvi Greenberg, and Joshua Yeivin

Peretz Hirschbein (left), Uri Zvi Greenberg (standing in center), and Alter Kacyzne (wearing glasses) 1922

Brit HaBirionim founders Abba Ahimeir, Uri Zvi Greenberg, and Joshua Yeivin

Uri Zvi Greenberg - Image: Uri Zvi Grinberg 1956

Image: Uri Zvi Grinberg 1956

Joseph Bau [videos]

Joseph Bau was a Polish-Israeli artist, philosopher, inventor, animator, comedian, commercial creator, copy-writer, poet, and survivor of the Płaszów concentration camp. — Life — Bau was trained as a graphic artist at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine …

Joseph Bau - Joseph Bau

Joseph Bau - Joseph Bau museum in Tel Aviv

Joseph Bau

Joseph Bau museum in Tel Aviv

Dahn Ben-Amotz [videos]

Dahn Ben-Amotz was an Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright, and author, as well as a former Palmah member. Despite having immigrated from Poland in 1938, he was often considered the epitome of the "Sabra", a native …

Dahn Ben-Amotz - Photo of Netiva Ben-Yehuda with Dahn Ben-Amotz from Palmach Archive

Dahn Ben-Amotz - Image: Dan Ben Amotz 1961

Photo of Netiva Ben-Yehuda with Dahn Ben-Amotz from Palmach Archive

Image: Dan Ben Amotz 1961

Israel Eldad [videos]

Israel Eldad, was an Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the pre-state underground group Lehi. — Early life and education — Israel Scheib was born in 1910 in Pidvolochysk, Galicia in a traditional Jewish …

Israel Eldad - Plaque commemorating the escape of Eldad, in Jerusalem.

Israel Eldad - Image: Eldad Israel

Plaque commemorating the escape of Eldad, in Jerusalem.

Image: Eldad Israel

Yehuda Meir Abramowicz [videos]

Yehuda Meir Abramowicz was an Israeli rabbi and politician. He served as general secretary of Agudat Yisrael, which he represented in the Knesset from 1972 until 1981, and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981 …

Yehuda Meir Abramowicz - Image: Yehuda Avramovitz

Image: Yehuda Avramovitz

Miriam Akavia [videos]

Miriam Akavia also Matylda Weinfeld was a Polish-born Israeli writer and translator, a Holocaust survivor, and the president of the Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue. — Life — She was born in 1927 in Krakow to the Weinfeld family. During World War II she was interned in …

Miriam Akavia - Miriam Akavia

Miriam Akavia

Chava Alberstein [videos]

Chava Alberstein is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger. — Biography — Chava Alberstein, born in Szczecin, Poland, moved to Israel with her family in 1950. She grew up in Kiryat Haim. — In 1964, when she was 17, she …

Chava Alberstein - Image: Chava Alberstein tight composition

Image: Chava Alberstein tight composition

Yaakov Aryeh Alter [videos]

Yaakov Aryeh Alter, is the seventh and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he has held since 1996. He lives in Israel and has followers in the United States, Europe and Canada. He is a member of the Presidium of the …

Yaakov Aryeh Alter - Rabbi Alter as Sandek at a bris milah

Rabbi Alter as Sandek at a bris milah

Janina Altman [videos]

Janina Altman, born 2 January 1931 in Lwów, Poland, is a Polish-Israeli chemist, author and a Holocaust survivor. — Life — Janina Hescheles' father, Henryk Hescheles, was a journalist in Lwów and publisher of the Polish-language Zionist periodical Chwila. Her …

Janina Altman - Janina Altman (née Hescheles)

Janina Altman (née Hescheles)

Divsha Amirà [videos]

Divsha Amirà was an Israeli mathematician and educator. — Biography — Amirà was born in Brańsk, Russian Empire to Rivka and Aharon Itin. She immigrated to Israel with her family in 1906. Her father was one of the founders of Ahuzat Bayit …

Divsha Amirà - Divsha Amirà in 1940

Divsha Amirà in 1940

Reuven Arazi [videos]

Reuven Arazi was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapam and the Alignment between 1965 and 1974. — Biography — Born in Mezhirichi in the Russian Empire, Arazi was educated at a gymnasium in Poland …

Reuven Arazi - Image: Reuven Arzi 1965 11 01

Image: Reuven Arzi 1965 11 01

Ike Aronowicz [videos]

Yitzhak "Ike" Aronowicz was an Israeli sailor, best known as the captain of the immigrant ship SS Exodus, which unsuccessfully tried to dock in British-era Palestine with Holocaust survivors on July 11, 1947, after the end of World War II. His surname was later …

Ike Aronowicz - Aronowicz in 2005

Aronowicz in 2005

Pessah Bar-Adon [videos]

Pessah Bar-Adon was a Polish-born, Israeli archaeologist and writer. — Early life — Born Pessah Panitsch in Kolno, Poland, to a Zionist, ultra-orthodox family, he was educated in a Jewish orthodox school and in Yeshivas. He immigrated to Israel in 1925 …

Pessah Bar-Adon - Image: Bar Adon

Image: Bar Adon

Moshe Bejski [videos]

Moshe Bejski was a Polish-born Israeli Supreme Court Justice and President of Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Commission. After surviving the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler, Bejski immigrated to Israel. In 1961, he …

Moshe Bejski - Bejski testifying at Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, 1961

Bejski testifying at Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, 1961

Ephraim Ben-Artzi [videos]

Ephraim Ben-Artzi, was an Israeli general. — Biography — Born in 1910 in Slonim, Ben-Artzi made aliyah in 1924. In 1935 he joined the Hagana and during the Second World War he joined the British Army and was among the first Jewish officers at the rank of Major. He was …

Ephraim Ben-Artzi - Image: Efraimbenarzi

Image: Efraimbenarzi

Shmuel Ben-Artzi [videos]

Shmuel Ben-Artzi was an Israeli writer, poet and educator. Ben-Artzi was also the father in-law of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. — Life and work — Ben-Artzi was born Samuel Han on December 31, 1914, in Biłgoraj …

Shmuel Ben-Artzi - Shmuel Ben-Artzi with his family in 1960.

Shmuel Ben-Artzi with his family in 1960.

Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir [videos]

Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1952 until his death. — Biography — Born in Warsaw in the Russian Empire, Ben-Meir was …

Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir - Image: Benmeir shlomo

Image: Benmeir shlomo

Levi Yitzchok Bender [videos]

Levi Yitzchok Bender was a rabbi and leader of the Breslov community in both Uman, Ukraine and Jerusalem, Israel. Many Breslover Hasidim regarded him as their spiritual mentor, especially baalei teshuva who joined the Breslov movement in the 1970s and 1980s …

Levi Yitzchok Bender - Image: לוי יצחק בנדר

Image: לוי יצחק בנדר

Herzl Berger [videos]

Dr Herzl Berger was a Minsk-born Israeli activist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1962. — Biography — Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire, Berger …

Herzl Berger - Image: Berger herzl

Image: Berger herzl

Adolf Berman [videos]

Adolf Avraham Berman was a Polish-Israeli activist and communist politician. — Biography — Born in Warsaw in the Russian Empire, Berman attended the University of Warsaw, where he earned a PhD in psychology. Whilst a …

Adolf Berman - Image: Adolf Berman 1

Image: Adolf Berman 1

Thomas Blatt [videos]

Thomas "Toivi" Blatt was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor, writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish Sonderkommando prisoners in October …

Thomas Blatt - Thomas Blatt in 2013 during a return to Sobibór marking the 70th anniversary of the camp uprising

Thomas Blatt in 2013 during a return to Sobibór marking the 70th anniversary of the camp uprising

Meir Bosak [videos]

Meir Bosak was a Polish-Israeli historian, writer and poet. — Bosak was born in Kraków, Poland in 1912. As a youth, he studied in Warsaw. From 1929, Bosak began publishing articles in Polish and in Hebrew on the history of Polish Jewry. He also wrote essays on Hebrew literature …

Meir Bosak - Image: Meir Bosak

Image: Meir Bosak

Moshe Bromberg [videos]

Moshe Bromberg was a notable artist and sculptor.Bromberg was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, near Łódź, Poland in December 1920. He studied art in Kraków when the Second World War broke out. He and his brother were in a German concentration work camp for a short period but …

Moshe Bromberg - Moshe Bromberg, 1970

Moshe Bromberg, 1970

Zahava Burack [videos]

Zahava Burack was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland who went on to become a well-known philanthropist, community leader and political activist in the United States. During her childhood, she hid with her family for two and a half years in a …

Zahava Burack - Zahava Burack at a 1986 ceremony in honor of the Macugowski family.

Zahava Burack at a 1986 ceremony in honor of the Macugowski family.

Igal Bursztyn [videos]

Igal Bursztyn is an Israeli film director, writer, producer and adjunct full professor at the Tel Aviv University Film and TV Department. — Biography — Bursztyn was born in Manchester, England, his parents were born in Poland. In 1949, his family returned to Warsaw, Poland and …

Igal Bursztyn - Igal Bursztyn

Igal Bursztyn

Moshe Carmel [videos]

You may be looking for Moshe Carmeli, an Israeli professor of theoretical physics at Ben Gurion University.Moshe Carmel was an Israeli soldier and politician who served as Minister of Transportation for eight years. — Background — Born in …

Moshe Carmel - Image: Moshe Carmel 1955

Image: Moshe Carmel 1955

Michael Dekel [videos]

Michael Dekel was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1977 and 1988. — Biography — Dekel was born in Pińsk, Poland. During World War II he served in the Red Army between …

Michael Dekel - Dekel (right) meeting German Economy Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger in February 1988.

Dekel (right) meeting German Economy Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger in February 1988.

Avraham Drori [videos]

Avraham Rafael Drori was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut between 1961 and 1964. — Biography — Born in Łódź in Poland, Drori was a member of the Betar youth movement. He made aliyah …

Avraham Drori - Image: Avraham Drori

Image: Avraham Drori

Haim Drukman [videos]

Haim Meir Drukman, born 15 November 1932) is an Israeli Orthodox Rabbi and former politician. He serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva, and head of the Center for Bnei Akiva Yeshivot. — Biography — Early life — Born in Kuty in Poland, Drukman …

Haim Drukman - Image: Haim Drukman

Image: Haim Drukman

Shimon Dzigan [videos]

Shimon Dzigan was a Jewish comedian. His father was a soldier in the Russian military. After the outbreak of the first world war Dzigan was apprenticed to a tailor to help the family make ends …

Shimon Dzigan - Image: Shimon Dzigan

Image: Shimon Dzigan

Shmuel Eisenstadt [videos]

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt was an Israeli sociologist. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1990 until his death in September 2010 he was …

Shmuel Eisenstadt - Eisenstadt (March 2008)

Eisenstadt (March 2008)

David Enoch [videos]

David Enoch was an Israeli chess player. — Biography — David Enoch was born in Oświęcim in 1901 He emigrated to Berlin after the First World War. He tied for 6-7th at Berlin 1927, and took 10th at Berlin 1929.Enoch immigrated from Germany …

David Enoch - David Enoch

David Enoch

Naftali Feder [videos]

Naftali Feder was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1977 and 1984. — Biography — Feder was born in Olkusz in Poland. When the country was invaded by Nazi Germany, he fled to the …

Naftali Feder - Image: Naftali Feder

Image: Naftali Feder

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