Meir Vilner
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Meir Vilner was a Lithuanian-born Israeli communist politician and Jewish leader of the Communist Party of Israel, at one time a powerful force in the country. He was the youngest and last living sign
Vilner in 1969
Vilner's official Knesset portrait, 1951
Vilner later in his career
Vilner addresses Rakah's 1976 convention
Abba Kovner
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Abba Kovner was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his 1942 manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to mur
Meir Vilner
…life began as a leader of the Zionist-socialist youth group Hashomer Hatzair (Young Guard). He served on the local secretariat alongside his cousin Abba Kovner and his future wife Esther Vilenska. However, he soon grew disenchanted by what he viewed as a tendency in Zionist groups to dream of a Jewish homeland…
Kovner testifies at the trial of Adolf Eichmann
Kovner (right) briefs members of the IDF in Yad Mordechai during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Kovner's grave in kibbutz Ein HaHoresh
Abba Kovner drawn by Chaim Topol