Yitzhak Arad | |
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Born | Icchak Rudnicki November 11, 1926[1] |
Died | May 6, 2021[2] | (aged 94)
Nationality | Israeli |
Occupation(s) | Historian, retired IDF brigadier general |
Yitzhak Arad (Hebrew: יצחק ארד; né Icchak Rudnicki; November 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021) was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust.