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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Abba Hushi, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Uri Zvi Grinberg, Avraham Shlonsky, Moshe Feldenkrais, Ben-Zion Dinur, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Yehezkel Kaufmann, Ruslan Sirota, Ephraim Katzir, Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Baruch Ostrovsky, Itzhak Shum, Michael Shmerkin, Zvi Zimmerman, Rivka Guber, Avraham Herzfeld, Aryeh Dvoretzky, Yitzchok Sternhartz, Yosef Tamir, Abraham Sternhartz, Roman Bronfman, Shoshana Parsitz, Yitzhak Frenkel, Alona Kimhi, Chana Orloff, Tova Sanhadray, Irina Lenskiy, Abraham Chazan, Zvi Shiloah, Dov Sadan, Jacob Levitzki, Avraham Shekhterman, Mordechai Surkis, Ya'akov Katz, Avoth Yeshurun, Ruth Haktin, Menachem Avidom, Yisrael Kargman, Olga Beresnyeva, Haim Boger, Artur Kogan, Aharon Goldstein, David Solomon Eibenschutz, Shmuel Shoresh, Nahum Het, Emanuel Vahl, Haim Ben-Asher, Vadim Bavikin, Shimshon Unichman, Zvi Yehuda, Batsheva Katznelson, Svetlana Gnezdilov, Boris Alterman, Yehezkel Hen, Efraim Taburi, Sergey Lukashok, Anna Gostomelsky, Shraga Goren, Haim Shirman, Yehiel Duvdevani, Tzipora Laskov, Marina Kravchenko, Yitzhak Lamdan. Excerpt: Abba Hushi (Hebrew:, born Abba Schneller in 1898, died 24 March 1969) was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Haifa for eighteen years between 1951 to 1969. Hushi was one of the founders and activists of Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland. In July 1920, he immigrated to Palestine with a group of 130 Jewish pioneers. In Palestine, he took the Hebrew surname "Hushi," a translation of his original name, Schneller. He built roads and drained swamps, and helped to found kibbutz Beit Alfa. He was one of the founding members of the Histadrut labor federation. In 1927, he settled in Haifa and joined the Ahdut HaAvoda party, which later merged with Mapai. He was secretary of the Haifa Workers Council from 1931 to 1951. Hushi was elected to Israel's first Knesset in 1949 as a ...
