David Kroyanker
Israeli architectural historian
David Kroyanker (Hebrew: דוד קרויונקר; 1939 – 20 September 2025) was an Israeli architect and architectural historian of Jerusalem. He wrote dozens of popular books about Jerusalem neighborhoods, streets, and buildings, and urban planning.
Life and career
Kroyanker was born and raised in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. His father, Gustav Krojanker, was a German Zionist activist, journalist and art researcher. His mother, Edith Krojanker, was a lawyer in the public sector. His father died of cancer when Kroyanker was six years old.
He attended a high school located next to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces from 1958 to 1961. Kroyanker studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1963 to 1968. He returned to Israel to work as an architect for a firm headed by David Resnick in Jerusalem, and moved to the urban planning department of the Jerusalem Municipality under Meron Benvenisti in 1970. From 1973 to 1981 he worked in various planning departments in the municipality, including the Department of Urban Planning and the Special Projects Unit Planning Department.
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