Teddy Kollek

<html> <head> <title>Teddy Kollek</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/977/000170467/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Teddy KollekAKA Theodor KollekBorn: <a href="/lists/665/000106347/" class=proflink>27-May</a>-<a href="/lists/910/000105595/" class=proflink>1911</a> Birthplace: Nagyvázsony, Hungary Died: <a href="/lists/885/000106567/" class=proflink>2-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/485/000126107/" class=proflink>2007</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/894/000069687/" class=proflink>Jerusalem, Israel</a> Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, <a href="/cemetery/716/000208092/" class="proflink">Mount Herzl National Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: PoliticianNationality: Israel Executive summary: Mayor of Jerusalem, 1965-93Military service: Haganah (pre-Israel underground military)Named for Zionist <a href="/people/634/000056466/">Theodor Herzl</a>, Teddy Kollek was born in Austria-Hungary, but fled with his family to Palestine before the Nazis took power. He was a co-founder of Kibbutz Ein Gev on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, at the foot of the Golan Heights. He helped organize Haganah, the underground Jewish military group that sought to rescue Jews from Nazi persecution and, remarkably, he met with a then-mid-level Nazi official -- <a href="/people/782/000028698/">Adolf Eichmann</a> -- just before the outbreak of World War II, securing the release of 3,000 Jews from German concentration camps and their safe passage to England. After the formation of Israel, he worked in the administration of Prime Minister <a href="/people/625/000056457/">David Ben-Gurion</a>, and was elected Mayor of Jerusalem in 1965, and re-elected to six terms spanning 28 years. During his tenure as Mayor, he was widely credited with rebuilding the capitol as a modern city. He left office in 1993, losing a re-election campaign to Likud candidate and future Prime Minister <a href="/people/058/000114713/">Ehud Olmert</a>. He is the namesake of Teddy Kollek Football Stadium (commonly called Teddy Stadium). His son, Amos Kollek, is a well-known actor and director.Father: Alfred Kollek (banker) Mother: Margaret Kollek Wife: Tamar Schwarz Kollek (m. 1937, one son, one daughter) Son: Amos Kollek (actor/director, b. 1947) Daughter: Osnat Kollek-Sachs (artist, b. 1960)     <a href="/honors/623/000165128/">Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels</a> 1985     <a href="/gov/081/000114736/">Israeli Mayor</a> Jerusalem (1965-93)     <a href="/gov/886/000164394/">Israeli Official</a> Director-General of Prime Minister's office (1952-65)     <a href="/gov/886/000164394/">Israeli Official</a> Diplomat, assigned to US (1951-52)     <a href="/gov/886/000164394/">Israeli Official</a> Foreign Ministry (1949-51)     <a href="/lists/352/000044220/">Hungarian Ancestry</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/397/000091124/">My Architect: A Son's Journey (13-Apr-2003)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/852/000254090/">Double Edge (30-Sep-1992)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/177/000239457/">Goodbye, New York (17-May-1985)</a> Author of books: My Jerusalem: Twelve Walks in the World's Holiest City (<tt>1990</tt>, with Shulamith Eisner) Jerusalem: A History of Forty Centuries (<tt>1968</tt>, with Moshe Pearlman) For Jerusalem: A Life (<tt>1978</tt>, with Amos Kollek) Pilgrims to the Holy Land: The Story of Pilgrimage through the Ages (<tt>1970</tt>, with Moshe Pearlman) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=170467"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=170467">Teddy Kollek</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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