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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 .
Founded by Hillel Kook, who had the pseudonym "Peter H. Bergson", the Bergson Group was a group formed during the Holocaust to advocate for the fight against Nazis and for rescuing Jews. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
During the Knesset term Eliezer Preminger left Maki and re-established the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam, while Ari Jabotinsky and Hillel Kook, both associated with the Bergson Group in the United States, broke away from Herut; they were not recognised as a separate party by the speaker.
Hillel Kook: Left the party to sit as an independent Haim Landau: Eliyahu Lankin: Yaakov Meridor: Shmuel Merlin: Avraham Rakanti: Esther Raziel-Naor: General Zionists (7) Peretz Bernstein: Ya'akov Gil: Ya'akov Klivnov: Shoshana Parsitz: Israel Rokach: Yosef Sapir: Yosef Serlin: Progressive Party (5) Idov Cohen: Yeshayahu Forder: Avraham Granot ...
It was organized by Hillel Kook, nephew of the chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and head of the Bergson Group, and involved more than 400 rabbis, mostly members of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, [1] from New York and cities throughout the Eastern United States. It was the only such protest in Washington during ...
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Altalena Affair Part of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Altalena on fire after being shelled near Tel Aviv Date 20 June – 23 June 1948 Location Coast of Israel Result IDF victory Civil war averted after Irgun leader Menachem Begin orders his followers not to retaliate Most arrested Irgun members later released and integrated into IDF Belligerents Israel Defense Forces Irgun Commanders and ...
In December 1943, the American Jewish Conference launched a public attack against Hillel Kook and the “Bergson Group” in an attempt to reduce support for the Irgun and Revisionist Zionism in the US and their agenda to more actively rescue European Jews.