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3 unusual facts about Jeremiah Halpern


Jeremiah Halpern

Jeremiah Halpern was educated at The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv and following his high school education graduated as a Captain from the Italian Naval Academy in 1917.

In the early 1940s Halpern worked with Lord Stabolgi to achieve the objectives of Bergson's Committee for a Jewish Army, a campaign which was endorsed enthusiastically by the Jewish Chronicle, but which antagonised the Zionist establishment because of its association with Jabotinsky's New Zionist Organization.

In 1951 Halpern proposed to David Ben-Gurion to re-organise the Israeli commercial and military Marine Corps and to establish a research programme to explore the natural resources of the Red Sea.



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