Givat Brenner - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Achi Brandt, an Israeli mathematician, noted for his pioneering contributions to multigrid methods, and professor at the Weizmann Institute, was born in 1938, in Givat Brenner.
  • Jacob Loutchansky, a sculptor. His work, inspired by events in the history of Israel, is on display throughout the kibbutz.
  • Yitzhak Sadeh, a writer and officer in the Haganah, died in 1952 and is buried in the kibbutz.
  • Jessie Sampter, poet, close friend of Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, she established a vegetarian convalescent home at kibbutz Givat Brenner, where she died, November 11, 1938.
  • Haim Seligmann, a research fellow and lecturer at the Kibbutz Movement's Yad Tabenkin Institute and at Seminar Ef'al. His book, on the educational activities of the high school teachers in the Weimar Republic, was published in Germany. Haim was born in Karlsruhe and died in Givat Brenner in September 2009.

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