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Herzog Meets 94-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Danieli in Jerusalem

8/22/2026

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President Isaac Halevi Herzog met 94-year-old Holocaust survivor David Danieli in Jerusalem.
Danieli boarded the SS Exodus in July 1947 with 4,515 survivors before British forces intercepted it.
On August 22, 1946, he traveled on a Katowice-Prague train with other rescued children.
He emigrated to Israel in 1948 after staying in a Hamburg displaced-persons camp.
In Israel he worked as an engineer, married, and lived 42 years in Beersheba.

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President Isaac Halevi Herzog met 94-year-old Holocaust survivor David Danieli in Jerusalem.
Danieli boarded the SS Exodus in July 1947 with 4,515 survivors before British forces intercepted it.
On August 22, 1946, he traveled on a Katowice-Prague train with other rescued children.
He emigrated to Israel in 1948 after staying in a Hamburg displaced-persons camp.
In Israel he worked as an engineer, married, and lived 42 years in Beersheba.