Revisionist Zionist activist and Israeli politician
Hillel Kook
Faction represented in the Knesset
1949–1951
Herut
1951
Independent
Personal details
Born
24 July 1915 Kriukai, Russian Empire
Died
18 August 2001(2001-08-18) (aged 86)
Hillel Kook (Hebrew: הלל קוק, 24 July 1915 –18 August 2001), also known as Peter Bergson (Hebrew: פיטר ברגסון), was a Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
Kook led the Irgun's efforts in the United States during World War II to promote Zionism and mainly to save the abandoned Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. His rescue group's activism was the main factor leading to President Roosevelt establishing the US War Refugee Board, which protected and rescued tens of thousands and possibly many more, partly via the Wallenberg mission. He later served in Israel's first Knesset.
HillelKook (Hebrew: הלל קוק, 24 July 1915 –18 August 2001), also known as Peter Bergson (Hebrew: פיטר ברגסון), was a Revisionist Zionist activist and...
The House of Hillel (Beit Hillel) and House of Shammai (Beit Shammai) were, among Jewish scholars, two schools of thought during the period of tannaim...
Abraham Isaac Kook (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, and also known by the Hebrew-language...
politician, mathematician, rabbi, and president of Bar-Ilan University HillelKook, Knesset member Rabbi Dov Lior, former Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat...
1948. The Altalena, former landing ship tank USS LST-138, organized by HillelKook (a.k.a. Peter Bergson) purchased by Irgun members Gershon Hakim, Abraham...
party's list of candidates. On 20 February 1951 however, Jabotinsky and HillelKook left Herut, and sat as independents for the rest of the term, although...
the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam, while Ari Jabotinsky and HillelKook, both associated with the Bergson Group in the United States, broke away...
lost two of its Knesset seats, with the defection of Ari Jabotinsky and HillelKook from the party to sit as independent MKs. Referring to previous written...
Avaraham Stern ("Yair") Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, by HillelKook at www.etzel.org.il - Profile at the Irgun website Patrick Bishop, The...
view, shared by Goldmann and Wise, which led them strongly to oppose HillelKook's (Peter Bergson)'s energetic, creative and public methods of attempting...
Jabotinsky (the son of Ze'ev Jabotinsky), the Betar representative and HillelKook, the Irgun representative, to coordinate the immigration (also known...
was actually the English nom-de-guerre of HillelKook, a Palestinian Jew and nephew of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook who was associated with the radical armed...
regional theatres. The play is based on HillelKook's wartime experiences in the United States. The role of HillelKook (aka "Peter Bergson") was played twice...
nation as separate and different from the Jewish people. He was close to HillelKook who advocated severely limiting the Right of Return, forming a Hebrew...
commanders (Moshe Hason, Eliyahu Lankin, Yaakov Meridor, Bezalel Amitzur, and HillelKook), who were detained for more than two months, until 27 August 1948. Begin...
the American League for a Free Palestine, an organization headed by HillelKook (known in America by the anglicized name Peter Bergson), to raise money...
that HillelKook (aka Peter Bergson) is an adventurer and does not represent "organized Jewry". He pleaded to either deport or draft HillelKook in order...
movement known as the Bergson Group. This was a committee led by Zionist HillelKook, who in his interactions with Americans favored the less alien-sounding...
into World War 2. On October 6, 1943, three days before Yom Kippur, HillelKook (aka Peter Bergson) organized a march to Washington DC (the famous Rabbis...
academic and civil rights activist Ilanit Sapir Koffmann, Miss Israel 1984 HillelKook Daphni Leef, activist and video editor Ari Shavit, author, journalist...
Rabbi Hillel Poisic (15.1.1881 Zlatopol, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire – 1953 Tel Aviv, Israel) was a communal worker and Torah scholar. He was an...
abandoned Jews of Europe. The campaign was led by the Bergson Group led by HillelKook (aka Peter Bergson). The activist group had significant support by many...
receive Jewish refugees. Zofia Kossak-Szczucka – Polish founder of Zegota. HillelKook (aka Peter Bergson) established a US-based rescue group, which had considerable...
1943, the American Jewish Conference launched a public attack against HillelKook and the “Bergson Group” in an attempt to reduce support for the Irgun...
philanthropist Harry Fischel, under the impetus of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook ("Rav Kook"); see the Hebrew Article re Machon Ariel of which The Harry Fischel...
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