Haim Boger

Boger Chaim (Hebrew: חיים בוגר; born September 25, 1876 in Crimea, Russian Empire, as Chaim Bograschow, † June 8, 1963 ) was an Israeli educator and politician, 1951-1955 member of the Knesset for the General Zionists had.

Biography

Boger attended in what was then the Russian Empire, a high school, studied with his father and his uncle, Rabbi Aron Bograschow, the Torah and studied from 1901 at the University of Bern, where he later took off a doctorate in philosophy. He then worked in Russian schools as teacher of Hebrew.

He was among the leaders of the organization " Zionists for Zion ", which was contrary to the British Uganda Plan, which provided for a Jewish state in East Africa. He lived at several Zionist congresses and settled in 1906 in the then Ottoman Palestine. He supported the establishment of the Hebrew Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, where he also taught as one of the first teachers and whose director he was from 1919 to 1951.

After the First World War, he founded the Nordia neighborhood in Tel Aviv for homeless people. From 1921 to 1930 he was a member of the Assembly of Representatives of the Palestinian Mandate and member of the city council of Tel Aviv.

In the elections of 1951 he was elected on the list of General Zionists in the second Knesset.

Boger died in 1963 and was buried in Tel Aviv; later a street there named after him ( Bograshov Street).