Hillel Kook
Hillel Kook ( Hebrew הלל קוק, also Peter Bergson ; * July 24, 1915 in Kriukai ( Yiddish : Kruk), Lithuania , Russian Empire ; † August 18, 2001 near Tel Aviv ) was a revisionist-Zionist activist, politician and prominent member of the Irgun .
Life
His family left Lithuania in 1925 and emigrated to Palestine . There he visited the Yeshiva Merkas HaRaw Kook in Jerusalem, which was founded by his uncle Abraham Isaak Kook . He then studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
In 1937 he was sent to Poland by the Irgun . When World War II began, he went to the United States. After the start of the war he tried to interest the public in the extermination of European Jews. For this purpose he founded the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe .
After the establishment of the State of Israel, he returned there. In 1948 he was involved in the Altalena affair , in which the Irgun fought with the Israeli army and 19 people died. He was briefly arrested because of his participation on the part of the Irgun. In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset for the Cherut . In 1951, however, he resigned his mandate and went back to the USA.
In 1970 he returned to Israel from the USA, where he lived near Tel Aviv until his death.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hillel Kook in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bergson Group ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biography on the website of the Israeli parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kook, Hillel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergson, Peter; הלל קוק (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli Zionist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kriukai |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 2001 |
| Place of death | near Tel Aviv |