Sderot levi eshkol biography
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Eshkol (Shkolnik), Levi
ESHKOL (Shkolnik ), LEVI (1895–1969), Israeli statesman and third prime minister of Israel, member of the Second to Sixth Knessets. Eshkol was born in Oratova, in the Kiev district in the Ukraine, into a prosperous hasidic family.
As a child he studied at a ḥeder and with private tutors up to the age of 16, when he entered the Hebrew high school in Vilna.
Sderot levi eshkol biography
Eshkol joined the Ẓe'irei Zion movement in Vilna. He settled in Ereẓ Israel in 1913 and began his career as an agricultural worker and watchman. He was one of the founders of a workers' commune called Ha-Avodah in Petaḥ Tikvah, which then moved to a plot of land near Kalandia, north of Jerusalem, and from there to Rishon le-Zion.
In 1918–20 he served in the *Jewish Legion, and after World War i was one of the founders of kevuẓat *Deganyah Bet, soon becoming its treasurer and economic planner, securing funds for its development from central labor and Zionist institutions.
In later years he became