Yona Kesse

Yona Kesse (Hebrew: יונה כסה‎, born 1907, died 27 June 1985) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1965.

Biography

Born in Dobre in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Kesse was educated at a heder. During his youth, he frequented the home of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. His parents died in the Holodomor in 1921. He was a member of HeHalutz, which was an illegal organisation in Russia, and in 1925 he was arrested for Zionist activities. The following year he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine.

Kesse joined Hapoel Hatzair, and in 1932 became secretary of Rehovot Workers Council. Between 1933 and 1936 he was a member of the Kfar Bilu moshav, before joining Kvutzat Shiller in 1936. A member of the Histadrut trade union's education centre, he was also a member of the Haganah's regional command in the south of Palestine. In 1938 he became secretary of Mapai, also holding the position between 1939 and 1940, and again from 1953 until 1956.

Yona

The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue "Yavana" in Sanskrit are words used in the Ancient India to designate Greek speakers. "Yona" and "Yavana" are transliterations of the Greek word for "Ionians" (Homeric Greek: Ἰάoνες, Ancient Greek: *Ἰάϝoνες), who were probably the first Greeks to be known in the East.

The Yavanas are mentioned in the Majjhima Nikaya, in which Gautama Buddha mentions to the Brahman Assalayana the existence of the Kamboja and Yona people who have only two castes, master or slave.

Examples of direct association of these with the Greeks include:

Yona (disambiguation)

Yona is a Pali word used to refer to speakers of Greek.

Yona may also refer to:

See also

Yona (film)

Yona (Hebrew: יונה‎) is a 2014 Israeli drama film directed by Nir Bergman. It has been nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Film.

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