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Philip Gillon

Philip “Figgy” Gillon (1913–2003) was born in Johannesburg and immigrated to Israel in the early 1950s. For many years a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, he was best known for his “Telereviews,” which were primarily a platform for his own pronounced political and social opinions.

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Katie Gluckmann

Katie Gluckmann was a prominent leader in South Africa’s Zionist movement of the early to mid-twentieth century. She was elected to the executive board of the Zionist Conference every year from 1928 to 1949, and she helped create the South African Zionist Council when male Zionists fought the creation of a South African branch of the Women’s International Zionist Organization in the 1930s.