Eliyahu Dobkin
Eliyahu Dobkin ( Hebrew אליהו דובקין; born December 31, 1898 in Babrujsk , Russian Empire , today Belarus; died October 26, 1976 in Jerusalem ) was a Zionist activist and one of the signatories of Israel's Declaration of Independence .
Life
Eliyahu Dobkin grew up in a religious Zionist family in Babrujsk, where he attended the cheder and a high school. His father was a timber merchant, later a banker and a supporter of the Misrachi movement. 1917, as a law student at the University of Kharkov , is Eliyahu joined the organization Hechaluz , which this year of Joseph Trumpeldor was founded. During the October Revolution he moved to Poland and in 1921 was elected General Secretary of the International Center of Hechaluz , based in Warsaw .
He was one of the founders of the Mapai party . In 1932 he emigrated with his wife and daughter on the Italian ship Carnaro from Trieste to Palestine . He settled in Tel Aviv and became the head of the immigration department of the Histadrut that same year . From 1933 until his retirement in 1968, he belonged to the Zionist General Council on ( "Zionist General Council"), the top Zionist institution. When he was appointed a board member of the Jewish Agency by Mapai in 1936 , he moved to Jerusalem and also held this office until 1968. During World War II he was responsible for rescuing European Jews from the Shoah and organized the youth aliyah and illegal immigration to Palestine.
He was among the 37 signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence, but was in the moment of the promulgation of the State of Israel in the siege in Jerusalem , he that his signature only something could attach later. From 1948 to 1961 he was CEO of Keren Hayesod .
Dobkin was also an art collector, chairman of the Bezalel Museum and, after the establishment of the Israel Museum, member of the board until his death. The Israel Museum houses a collection of antique glasses named after him.
The Jewish labor movement press in Poland published several Yiddish articles from Dobkins in the 1930s . In 1945 his book, written in Hebrew, was published in Jerusalem with the translated title "The Aliyah and Salvation in the Years of the Holocaust" ( Haaliya vehahatzala bischnot haschoa ).
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| SURNAME | Dobkin, Eliyahu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | אליהו דובקין (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Zionist activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Babruysk |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |