Meir Zorea
| Meir Zorea | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 March 1923 |
| Place of birth | Chişinău, Romania |
| Year of aliyah | 1925 |
| Date of death | 24 June 1995 (aged 72) |
| Knessets | 9 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1977–1978 | Democratic Movement for Change |
Meir "Zarro" Zorea MC (Hebrew: מאיר זורע, born Meyer Zarodinsky (Hebrew: מאיר זארודינסקי) on 14 March 1923, died 24 June 1995) was a general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and later a member of the Knesset. He earned distinction through his combat actions in World War II and in the Israeli War of Independence. He was a founder of Democratic Movement for Change, an initially successful but short-lived centrist party.
Zorea was born in Chişinău, Bessarabia (then part of the Kingdom of Romania, now in Moldova) in 1923, and moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1925. He was a teenager at the outbreak of World War II, but in 1942 joined the 20th company of the Buffs, which was recruited from Palestine's Jews, and after September 1944 the Jewish Brigade, a temporary combatant military element of the British military. During late winter in 1945, Zorea's Brigade took part in combat against the German army at the Senio River Valley (near Bologna, Italy). After two difficult months, the brigade emerged from the engagement battered, yet victorious. Then a second lieutenant, Zorea was awarded the British Military Cross for leading his men through intense fire. Eventually, Zorea attained the rank of captain before the brigade was dissolved in 1946.
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