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Eliyahu Krause

Eliyahu Krause was a Jewish agronomist and educator who managed the Sejera farm and directed the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School.

1878 to 1962Directing Mikveh IsraelManaging the Sejera farmHebrew teaching at Mikveh Israel

Born: 23 May 1878, Berdiansk
Occupation: educator, agronomist
Education: Mikveh Israel
Founded: 1912)

Eliyahu Krause was born in 1878 in Berdiansk

Eliyahu Krause was born in Berdiansk. In 1892 he moved from Russia to the Land of Israel with his brother Efraim, during the First Aliyah.

He and his brother studied at the Mikveh Israel agricultural school. After he finished, the JCA sent him to İzmir in Turkey, where he set up an agricultural school for Jews.

From 1901 to 1913 he managed the JCA farm at Sejera and served as its agronomist. He allowed Manya Shochat to set up a collective there, and he taught its workers farming. He supported the work of women at the farm and at first refused to let the Bar-Giora group guard it.

In 1914 he became director of Mikveh Israel. In 1918 he persuaded the school's owners to switch teaching from French to Hebrew.

He married Haya, sister of Yehoshua Hankin, and they had 3 children. He died in 1962 and was buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. The moshav Talmei Eliyahu, founded in 1970, is named after him.