!!!Kollek, Teddy

Kollek, Teddy, b. Vienna, May 27, 1911, politician. joined the 
Zionistic youth organisation T´khelet-Lavan and the He-Halutz 
organisation while still young. 1934 his family emigrated to 
Palestine. 1939 and 1940 succeeded in persuading A. Eichmann to send 
3,000 young internees in concentration camps to Palestine. Organised 
the Jewish underground in Central and Eastern Europe in 1942; Head of 
the US Department of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs; for 2 
years Israeli Ambassador to the USA, then Director-General of the 
Prime Minister´s Office, 1965-1993 Mayor of Jerusalem.


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