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Israel Shahak
Israeli chemist and activist for the human rights (1933-2001) · Israel · On the map · Scientists · Died at 68
Dr. Israel Shahak was a Polish-born Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate and activist on behalf of both Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews).
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For twenty years, he headed the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights (1970-1990) and was a public critic of the policies of the governments of Israel. As a public intellectual, Shahak's works about Judaism proved controversial, especially the book Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (1994).
