Israeli Spymaster Rafi Eitan Is BornCIE+
November 23, 1926 Rafi Eitan, whose intelligence career ranges from the high of capturing Adolf Eichmann in Argentina to the low of handling U.S. Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard as a spy, is born on a…
Tehiya Founder Geulah Cohen Is BornCIE+
December 25, 1925 Politician and activist Geulah Cohen, the founder of the Tehiya party, is born in Tel Aviv. Cohen becomes involved with political movements in Mandatory Palestine when she is young, and she joins…
5th Israeli President Yitzhak Navon Is BornCIE+
Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth president, is born in Jerusalem.
Diplomat, Historian Abba Eban Is BornCIE+
Israeli politician, diplomat, historian, and writer Abba Eban is born in Cape Town, South Africa.
Politician Ya’akov Hazan Is BornCIE+
June 4, 1899 Ya’akov Hazan, a leader in socialist politics through Israel’s first four decades, is born in Brest Litovsk, Russia. He is a founder of the Hashomer Hatzair scouting movement in Poland in 1915…
Avraham (Granot) Granovsky Is BornCIE+
Avraham (Granot) Granovsky, a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence and Director-General of the Jewish National Fund, is born in Moldova.
Future Knesset Speaker Sprinzak Is BornCIE+
Yosef Sprinzak, who would serve as the first Speaker of the Knesset and twice as Interim President, is born in Moscow.
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