Saul Arlosoroff

Saul Arlosoroff was born in 1930 in Tel Aviv

Saul Arlosoroff was born in Tel Aviv in 1930 to Sima and Haim Arlosoroff. His father was murdered on a Tel Aviv beach in 1933. From third to eighth grade he lived as an outside child at Kibbutz Ginegar, then attended the Herzliya Gymnasium high school.

He joined the Palmach in 1948 and served in the War of Independence with the Galilee Squadron. After the state was founded he was an Air Force pilot and held posts in Air Force intelligence. He studied water and mechanical engineering at the Technion.

From 1955 he worked at Mekorot, where he held senior posts. In 1967 he spent a year in Ghana for Tahal, working on water planning for Accra and Tema. He was deputy water commissioner from 1969 to 1977 and a water project manager at the World Bank in Washington from 1980 to 1993.

In 1995 he chaired the public committee reviewing Israel's water management, and in the late 1990s he was elected chairman of the Israel Water Engineers Association. He took part in projects commemorating his father. He died on February 13, 2024, and was buried in the Kfar Nachman cemetery in Ra'anana.