Zvi Segal

Zvi Segal was born in 1901 in Mława

Segal was born in 1901 in Mława, Poland, to Yitzhak Haim Segal, in a Hasidic family. He later settled in the Free City of Danzig, where his business brought him into contact with the city's authorities and he worked on behalf of its Jews.

He was active in the Revisionist movement. After the Nazis took power in 1933, he helped Revisionist immigration to the Land of Israel as a representative of the Kleinschmidt-Segal shipping company. Before World War II he negotiated the fate of the city's Jews, securing their move to the Land of Israel and compensation for lost property.

Segal immigrated in 1938. Because of his ties to the Irgun, he was held at the Latrun detention camp and deported to Eritrea by the British Mandate authorities. He served as vice-president of the Revisionist movement from 1940 to 1948.

In 1948 he signed the Declaration of Independence and joined the Provisional State Council, where he sat on the finance committee. After the founding of the Herut movement, he left politics and founded the Barnea company to develop Ashkelon. He died of a heart attack at his home in Tel Aviv in 1965 and was buried in Trumpeldor Cemetery.