Arthur Goldreich (1929-24 May 2011) was a key figure in the South African anti-apartheid movement and a critic of Israeli domestic policy.
Biography[]
Arthur Goldreich was born in 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa, but he would later settle in Israel and join Haganah's elite Palmach paramilitary wing during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. However, he returned to South Africa in 1962, and he became a successful artist as well as a member of the South African Communist Party and the anti-apartheid movement. After the Rivonia Trial, Goldreich and Harold Wolpe helped to locate sabotage sites for the Umkhonto we Sizwe armed wing of the socialist African National Congress, and they drafted a disciplinary code for guerrillas. They escaped from prison on one occasion and dressed as priests, escaping to Swaziland and then to Botswana. Goldreich moved to Israel after his escape, and he vocally opposed the "occupation and separation" seen in his home away from home. Goldreich died on 24 May 2011.