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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 ...
Bergson—who reverted to using his given name, Hillel Kook, when he returned to Israel—was elected to the first Knesset (national legislature of Israel) as a member of the Herut party, serving from 1949 to 1951.
Hillel Kook, un testigo ocular, afirmó que fue el Irgun, que disparó hacia el mar para demostrar su voluntad de resistir. Cuando comenzaron los combates, Beguin huyó al Altalena en un bote de remos, bajo el fuego de las corbetas en alta mar, y el capitán Fein maniobró el Altalena para proteger a Beguin, permitiéndole abordar a salvo.
Hillel Kook, alias Peter Bergson, was a famous Revisionist Zionist and humanitarian activist. Born in Lithuania in 1915, he emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1924. Kook’s father, Dov Kook, was a prominent Palestinian rabbi, and the family was intimately involved in Zionist politics.
Mr. Bergson, who was known in Israel by his Hebrew name, Hillel Kook, was born in 1915 in Lithuania, and was the youngest of eight children. At age 10, amid widespread pogroms, he and his...
How an Israeli professor discovered surprising information linking 'Peter Bergson' – who worked during the 1940s in the U.S. to help the Irgun underground in Mandatory Palestine, as well as European Jewry – to some notorious Jewish gangsters. Hillel Kook, aka Peter Bergson. Credit: Bettmann Archive / Getty Images.
Hillel Kook, who rallied Americans to save thousands of European Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, has died in Israel. He was 86. Known by the name Peter Bergson in the United...
