David Tidhar
Israeli writer (1897–1970)
David Tidhar (Hebrew: דוד תדהר; 1897–1970) is most noted as the editor of the 19-volume Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel compiled from 1947 until his death. His career included the police - during the British mandate of Palestine, a private detective, a communal leader and an author of detective stories.
Early life
Tidhar was born in Jaffa in 1897, his parents’ seventh child but the first to survive. He attended a religious school in Jaffa's Neve Shalom district that was founded by his father, Moshe Bezalel Todrosovitz. (Moshe Todrosovich was a philanthropist who had been instrumental in bringing Abraham Isaac Kook to serve as a rabbi in Jaffa - and Rabbi Kook later expressed admiration for his son, saying he had zekhut avot i.e. that he took after his father). Tidhar would later recall his childhood in Jaffa's pre-Tel Aviv era in his memoirs.
Tidhar was involved in community affairs from an early age, including preventing Christian missionary activity during the British mandate period. However his main early passion was football. In 1913 he became the initiator and player of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team.
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