David Shaltiel

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David Shaltiel in negotiations with Abdullah at-Tall

David Shaltiel (born 16 January 1903 as David Sealtiel in Berlin ; died 23. February 1969 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli general and diplomat .

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David Shaltiel was the son of the businessman Benjamin Sealtiel from Hamburg and his wife Helene Wormser from Karlsruhe . The first decades of his life were extremely difficult for him, who was considered stubborn and rebellious during his youth. He graduated from the Talmud Tora School with many complications and worked repeatedly in Hamburg and Bremen without success . In 1925 he picked oranges under the League of Nations mandate for Palestine . In 1926 he joined the Foreign Legion and lived in North Africa for five years . In 1931 he left the Legion and ran a small printing equipment factory in France . He later worked as a representative for Royal Dutch Shell . After coming to power , he decided in Metz to work for the Hechaluz Association. In 1934 Shaltiel traveled again to Palestine and in February 1935 received a full-time position as a functionary of the underground organization Hagana , for which he carried out orders in Europe and in particular bought weapons.

The Gestapo arrested Shaltiel at the German-Belgian border in November 1936 and held him for several months in various concentration camps , including the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , the Dachau concentration camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp . At the end of 1939, the National Socialists deported him to Palestine. English troops sentenced him to death for his activities in the Jewish underground, but later pardoned him. In the years that followed, Shaltiel held high military posts in Israel, initially as commandant of Haifa , and from the beginning of February 1948 after being appointed by David Ben-Gurion as Aluf of the Hagana in then besieged Jerusalem. As major general, he was able to defend several districts and conquer new ones, but lost East Jerusalem . After the establishment of the State of Israel , he took on important political and diplomatic tasks. These included the posts of Israeli ambassador to Mexico , Brazil and the Netherlands .

Shaltiel was buried on the Herzlberg , his parents in the Jewish cemetery in Langenfelde .

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SURNAME Shaltiel, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sealtiel, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli general, diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1969
Place of death Jerusalem