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Shlomo-Jacob Gross

Shlomo-Jacob Gross was an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and the Religious Torah Front in several terms between 1959 and 1981.

1908 to 2003Agudat Yisrael Knesset memberCampaign against the court oathEffort to save Kfar Gidon

Born: 6 December 1908, Austria–Hungary
Died: 7 July 2003, Israel
Occupation: politician
Party: Religious Torah Front

Shlomo-Jacob Gross was born in 1908 in Austria–Hungary

Gross was born on 6 December 1908 in Moisei, in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. He studied at a heder and at yeshivas. He was active in Young Agudat Yisrael in Transylvania and later served as secretary of Agudat Yisrael there, and he also edited a Yiddish newspaper.

During World War II he was held in a forced labor camp. His wife and two children were killed in Auschwitz in 1944. After the Red Army freed the camp, he helped set up a center for Jewish orphans.

He moved to Israel in 1950, married again, and worked at the Central Bureau of Statistics. He entered the Knesset in 1959 and again in 1961 as a replacement for members who had died. He kept his seat until he resigned in 1972 to make room for Ya'akov Mizrahi.

He returned to the Knesset in 1975 in place of Menachem Porush and lost his seat in the 1981 elections. In the Knesset he worked to end the court oath and to save moshav Kfar Gidon. He also ran the vocational school network of the Center for Vocational Education and helped found Beit Marmarosh in Tel Aviv. He died on 7 July 2003.