Aharon Mor

Aharon Mor was born in 1947

Aharon Mor, born Malowany, was born in 1947 in Wrocław, Poland, to parents who survived the Holocaust. He moved to Israel in 1957. He grew up on a moshav, where he studied and worked on the family farm.

He earned a B.A. in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974. In 2001 he completed an M.A. in public administration and public policy. In 2017 he received a PhD from Tel Aviv University for research on the restitution of Jewish property from the Holocaust era.

He was drafted into the IDF in 1966 and fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He later served in the reserves in the IDF Spokesperson's Unit until 2022.

Mor joined the Ministry of Finance in 1973 as an economist and later worked in the budget department, the income tax authority and the Investment Authority. He served as an emissary in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. From 2004 he advised the Prime Minister's Office on restitution and later led this work at the Ministry of Pensioner Affairs.

He took part in international conferences on Holocaust-era property in Washington, Vilnius and Prague. He also founded several nonprofit groups. In 2026 he published a book on Israel, Europe and restitution after the Holocaust.