9, Brandies Street, Tel Aviv, 62001
    Telephone: (home)     03 5443507
                     (at work)  03 6090406
                     (mobile)    053 320211

    Identy card No.: 939058-4
    Born: Siret, Bukovina, 1920
    Graduated: Law, at the High School of Law and Economics, Tel Aviv University
    During World War ll, member of the Leadership of the "Ha-noar Ha-Zioni" (("Zionist Youth), (underground)
    Secretary General of the Alliance of Pioner Organizations (Hechalutz) (underground)
    Member of the Aid and Rescue Committee (underground)
    Active in saving Polish and Hungarian Jews, touring illegally in the Ghettos and the Death Camps in Transnistria.
    Liaising with the rescue Allied paratroopers in Nazi - occupied Europe
    Organizing the Zionist Movement in Romania at the end of the war.
    Organizing the Zionst Movement in Romania at the end of the war
    Active in organizing Aliya (immigration from the D.P. Camps to Palestine)
    Immigrated as an ilegal immigrant from Yugoslavia in 1946, by "Knesset Israel" ship (4000 immigrants).
    Was caught by the British, spent one year in the Cyprus detention camps where he organized social, educational and cultural activities.

Public functions
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    - Member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency and Head of Youth Aliya (Aliyat Ha-Noar)
    - Secretary general of the Progressive Party, the United Liberal Party (altogether 9 years), the Independent Liberal Party
    - Member of the World Executive of the "Jewish World Congress".
    - On behalf of Aliyat Ha-Noar, Keren hayesod (Jewish Foundation Fund), the United Jewish Appeal, the Zionist rganization, fulfilled missions in Europ, the USA, South America and was known throught the Jewish world
    - Member of the world organization "B'nei B'rith"
    - Reprezentative of the Liberal Independent Party at the Liberal International
    - Meber of the Boad of Directors of the Broadcasting Authority (6 years)
    - Member of the Public Council for Russian Jewry
    - Member of the Board of Directors of "Rassco" (6 years)
    - Member of the Executive of "Yad Vashem" and the Comission for the Righteous Gentiles
    - Acting Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv  - Yafo (20 years)
    - In charge of problems of culture, youth, sports, Fairgrounds, the Mann Auditorium
    - Member of the KNESSET (Israeli Parliement)

Member of the Public Boards of Directors of:
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    The Israel Philarmonic Orchestra
    The Bat - Dor Dance Company
    The Bar - Sheva Dance Company
    The Tel Aviv Museum
    The "Haaretz" Museum
    The Jancu Dada Museum
    The Rinat Choir

Languages  written and spoken:
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Hebrew    English
Yidish       French
German    Romanian

Publications:
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    "The Way of Zionist Youth" - A life of a Zionist
    Reguar contributer to the newspapers: "Maariv", "Yedioth Aharonot", "Haboker", "Tmuroth", "Ultima ora" (Romanian)

    Married to Mimi, employee of Mihal Hapayiss. Father of a son (Shlomo Artzi) and a daughter (Nava Semel)