Ya'akov Winschel

Ya'akov Winschel (1891–1981) was an Israeli doctor and Revisionist Zionist writer.

Ya'akov Winschel in 1956.

Life

Ya'akov Winschel was born in Tiflis, then in the Georgian part of the Russian Empire (1721–1917), to the family of Ze'ev Winschel. As Winschel got older, his family resettled in Baku, Azerbaijan. Winschel did medicine in Munich, Geneva and Dorpat, where he was active in Zionist activism. He later became the founder of the Leumit Health Care Services and received the Jabotinsky Prize for Literature in 1968.