Gad Tedeschi (
Hebrew
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: גד טדסקי;
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
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: Guido Tedeschi) (born 1907; died 1992) was an Israeli
jurist
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.
Early life
Tedeschi was born in the town of
Rovigo
Rovigo (, ; egl, Ruig) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of Northeast Italy, the capital of the eponymous province.
Geography
Rovigo stands on the low ground known as Polesine, by rail southwest of Venice and south-southwest of P ...
in north-eastern
Italy
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in 1907. He emigrated to the
British Mandate of Palestine British Mandate of Palestine or Palestine Mandate most often refers to:
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* Mandatory P ...
in 1939, entering the country initially with a tourist visa.
Awards
* In 1954, Tedeschi was awarded the
Israel Prize
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History
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, for jurisprudence.
References
See also
*
List of Israel Prize recipients
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List
For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize ...
*
Tedeschi
Italian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
20th-century Italian Jews
Israeli legal scholars
Israel Prize in law recipients
Academic staff of the University of Siena
Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
People from Rovigo
People of Venetian descent
1907 births
1992 deaths
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