Re: [Cz-L] Independence Day_ Israel Prize_to former Czernowitzers (Bukowiners)

Givat Haim is near Hadera. It divided into two during the division,
 created Givat Haim Hameuchad nearby, where Benaharon
was a member.
Nasty affair,
Hardy

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To: "Bruce Reisch" <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "Irene Fishler"
<irenef_at_netvision.net.il>; "CZERNOWITZ-L" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Independence Day_ Israel Prize_to former Czernowitzers
(Bukowiners)

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> A few words about Yitshak Ben-Aharon.
> He was the cousin of my grandfather (father of my mother) - their
> fathers - Aharon and Yitzhak Nussenbaum, respectively, were brothers. He
> hebraicised his name taking up his father's name. Apparently both he and
> my mother's grandfather (his uncle) were named after a common grandfather,
> as was usual.
> He started Hashomer Hatzair in Czernowitz (coincidentally, he was the
> Madrikh of my aunt - sister of my father, in the Hashomer Hatzair Ken in
> Czernowitz) - and later in all Romania.
> Before his lengthy career as ideologist and leader in the Ahdut Haavoda
> and later in the Mapam party, and Head of various Ministries, he had
> joined the British Army in Palestine in 1940, became officer (I believe
> Lieutenant), fought in Greece, was captured by the Wehrmacht and was
> interned until end of WWII in a warprisoner camp for captive British
> officers.
> He died just two months before his 100th birthday - quite an achievement
> in itself - in his kibbutz Givat Haim (near Rehovot). Was quite lucid and
> gave a remarkable interview on Television a year and a half before that.
> Just a hilarious remark - his most remembered "lament", when the
> right-wing Likkud of Begin came to power, following the famous "Mahapakh"
> (dramatic change) elections, was "the nation needs to be replaced"...
> Quite an ideologist...
>
> Mordecai
>
>
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