Saadia Kobashi

Saadia Kobashi (Hebrew: סעדיה כובשי; Arabic: سعديه كوبشي, 1902–24 January 1990) was a leader of the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel, and one of the signatories of the country's declaration of independence.[1]

Saadia Kobashi
סעדיה כובשי
Born1902
Yemen
Died24 January 1990 (age 88)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Resting placeHar HaMenuchot, Jerusalem
Political partyYemenite Association

Biography

Kobashi was born in Yemen in 1902.[2] he migrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1909, settling in Jerusalem.[2]

A member of the Jewish National Council and Moetzet HaAm on behalf of the Yemenite Association, he signed the declaration of independence in 1948 as S. Kobashi, adding HaLevi at the end (referring to the tribe of Levi).[3] After independence, he moved to Tel Aviv and was appointed supervisor of the Religious-Zionist education system. He became headmaster of a religious-Zionist school in Rosh HaAyin[2] in 1949, where today a street is named after him.

References
  1. Rafael Medoff & Chaim I. Waxman (2013) Historical Dictionary of Zionism, p217
  2. "מת סעדיה כובשי". Ma'ariv. National Library of Israel. 1990-01-26. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  3. For this reason we congregated Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine Iton Tel Aviv, 23 April 2004
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