Ya'akov Winschel
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Ya'akov Winschel (Hebrew: יעקב וינשל), sometimes written as Weinschel (ויינשל) (1891–1981) was an Israeli doctor, book writer and essayist, and Revisionist Zionist politician.[1][2]
Ya'akov Winschel was born in Tiflis, then in Georgia, Russian Empire, now Tbilisi, to the family of Ze'ev Winschel, a physician. Late his family moved to Baku. He studied medicine in Munich, Geneva and Dorpat (nor Tartu, Estonia) and was active in youth Zionist organizations, in particular, edited their newspapers.[2]
A founder of Leumit Health Care Services.
The Jabotinsky Prize for Literature recipient (1968).[3]