Shalhevet Freier
Shalhevet Freier ( he, שלהבת פריאר; 16 July 1920 – 27 November 1994) was an Israeli physicist and administrator. Freier was born in Eschwege, Germany, the son of Rabbi Dr. Moritz (Moshe Yissachar) Freier and Recha Freier, founder of the Youth Aliyah organization. In 1937, while studying at a Christian school, he composed an essay expressing opposition to Nazi doctrine, which led to his expulsion. At his request, his parents sent him to England to continue his education. In 1940, he immigrated to British Mandated Palestine and was accepted as a student in the Department of Mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Upon completing his first year, his mother arrived and settled in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, after which he joined the British army in 1941, and served in the Jewish 462nd General Transport Company in North Africa and Italy. In 1943, his unit boarded the ''Erinpura'', the lead convoy ship ferrying units from the North African to Europea ...
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