About Heshel Frumkin
Lived 1896 – 1974 (aged 77–78). Heshel Frumkin was an Israeli economist, politician, trade unionist and newspaper editor.
Heshel Frumkin (; 1896 –11 April 1974) was an Israeli economist and politician.
Biography Born in Babruysk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Frumkin was educated in a heder and yeshiva, and was a member of Tzeiri Zion and HeHalutz during his youth. In 1920 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he was amongst the founders of the Histadrut trade union. In 1953 he established the Economics Quarterly journal, and edited it until 1974, the year in which he died.
He published two books, Economic Preparedness in 1943, and Immigration and Development on the way to the State in 1971.
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Israeli politician
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Heshel Frumkin was born in 1896 in Babruysk.
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Heshel Frumkin died on 11 April 1974 in Israel.
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Heshel Frumkin was an economist, politician, trade unionist and newspaper editor.
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