Choose Yourself a Hebrew Name!

Mordecai Nimtsa-bi

1948

Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:

. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German, Anglo-Saxon, Slavic, French, or any other foreign name—to Hebrew family names, in order to set an example for their troops. The Israel Defense Forces…

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Mordecai Nimtsa-bi

1903–1949

Mordecai Nimtsa-bi was born in Pinsk. After studying law in Moscow and Leningrad, he moved to Palestine in 1924 and lived in Haifa. In 1944, he published an official booklet of guidelines for creating Hebrew surnames, directed at new immigrants. In 1948, he became head of the Israel Civil Defense Service. He also published a book discussing strategies for designing the national flag of Israel.

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