Haim Yisraeli
Haim Yisraeli (
civil servant
.
Biography
Yisraeli was born in 1927 in the town of
First World War from typhus
).
Following the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland, Yisraeli's family was exiled to
Berihah network. They subsequently reached a transit camp in Germany, where Yisraeli met his future wife, Sarah. From the transit camp, the family managed to flee to Mandate Palestine
.
After Yisraeli arrived in Palestine, which was later to become the
State of Israel, he was not drafted to the IDF for health reasons. As a result, he was initially assigned to work temporarily in the archive of the Prime Minister's Office. He later managed to convince the doctors in the IDF recruiting office to enlist him, and, in 1950, he was sent to work, as part of his military service, in the Israeli Ministry of Defense
.
Yisraeli became a close aide of Nehemia Argov, the military Adjutant of the Defense Minister and first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, and, during his career, he worked in the service of 14 defense ministers.
Yisraeli's autobiography was published in 2005.
Awards
- In 1998, Yisraeli won the Israel Prize, for his special contribution to society and state, presented during the 50th Independence Day celebrations in Israel.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Adviser to fourteen defense ministers - posted on haaretz.com at June 9, 2011
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1998 (in Hebrew)".
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