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Shlomo Breznitz public figure dead at age 89

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Is Shlomo Breznitz dead? Yes. Shlomo Breznitz died on April 14, 2026, at age 89.

Cause of death: Shlomo Breznitz's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.

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Born: (1936-08-03) 3 August 1936 (age 89)Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

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)

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