Shlomo Breznitz, a Czechoslovak-born Israeli author, psychologist and former lawmaker, died on April 14, 2026.
He was 89. Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1936, Breznitz served as a member of the Knesset from 2006 to 2007.
He was also a former professor of psychology, former rector and president of the University of Haifa, and the founder and former board member of CogniFit, a brain fitness software company. During the Holocaust, he and his sister were hidden in a Roman Catholic orphanage, an experience he later described in his memoirs, “Memory Fields.”
Shlomo Breznitz, 89, Czechoslovak-born Israeli author and politician, MK (2006–2007). (death announced on this date)