Frederick Kisch (1888-1943) was a British Army officer and Zionist leader.
Frederick Kisch was born in India in 1888, and served in the British Army Royal Engineers. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers ( RE) and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps He served in France and the Middle East theatres of the First World War, and was a member of the British delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
He served as Zionist Commission head for the Jerusalem region between 1923 and 1931. The Jewish Agency for Israel (Hebrew הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Eretz Yisra'el) also known as the Sochnut or JAFI His British military background allowed him to cultivate excellent relations with the British administration of the Palestine Mandate as well as Arab leaders including Sharif Hussein of Mecca and his son King Abdullah I of Jordan. The Palestine Mandate, was a set of protocols or articles that formed a multilateral legal and administrative agreement Sayyid Hussein bin Ali, GCB (1854 &mdash June 4, 1931) ( حسین بن علی; Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif Abdullah I bin al-Hussein King of Jordan (1882 – July 20 1951 was born in Mecca, Ottoman Empire, (in modern-day Saudi Arabia) as ( Arabic
Kisch returned to military service in World War II as a Brigadier General commanding the British Eighth Army's Royal Engineers in the North African Campaign. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Brigadier General is the lowest ranking General Officer in some countries usually sitting between the ranks of Colonel and Major General. The Eighth Army was one of the best-known formations in World War II, fighting in the North African and Italian campaigns It was a British During World War II, the North African Campaign, also known as the Desert War, took place in the North African desert from June 10, 1940 He was killed by a landmine in Tunisia in 1943. Tunisia (تونس Tūnis officially the Tunisian Republic ( is a country located in North Africa.
The Israeli agricultural cooperative village Kfar Kisch was named after him. Moshav ( is a type of Cooperative Agricultural Community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second Kfar Kisch (or Kfar Kish; כפר קיש is an agricultural cooperative ( moshav) in Israel 's the Lower Galilee Regional Council, alongside
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