ELYE
PORETSKI (b. January 17, 1905)
He would later Hebraize his surname
to Porat. He was born in Telekhan (Telekhany),
near Baranovich, southern Russian. He
studied in religious elementary school and yeshiva in Vilna, and later graduated
from the Vilna Russian high school and the University of Basel (Switzerland)
with a Ph.D. In 1931 he founded and
edited in Riga the newspaper Ovntpost
(Evening mail), while also contributing to Tsayt
(Times) in Vilna and Moment (Moment)
in Warsaw. In 1935 he made aliya to the
land of Israel. In Haifa he founded a
Hebrew-language daily newspaper Hakarmel
(The Carmel), later called Har karmel
(Mount Carmel). He went on to found and
edit the newspaper Ḥadashot haerev (The
evening news) and Hamedina (The
state); and he wrote for Davar (Word)
and Haarets (The land), and served as
the political correspondent for “Voice of Israel.” During WWII he was a translator for the British
military. In book form: Migibraltar ad suets (From Gibraltar to Suez) (Jerusalem: Aḥiasaf, 1940/1941), 175 pp.;
and a book in German about the rise of the Jewish labor movement (Riga,
1932). He was last living in Israel.
Sources:
D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the
pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 4 (Tel Aviv, 1950), pp. 1556, 1657;
Meylekh Ravitsh, Mayn leksikon (My
lexicon), vol. 3 (Montreal, 1958), p. 482.
Yankev Kahan
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