Ari Rath

Ari Rath (Hebrew: ארי רט‎; 6 January 1925 – 13 January 2017) was an Austrian-born Israeli journalist and writer. Arnold (Ari) Rath was born in Vienna and grew up there. After the Anschluss, he came through a Kindertransport as a thirteen-year-old boy to Mandate Palestine. He arrived in Palestine together with his older brother. As one of the founders of Kibbutz Hamadia he lived there for 16 years and studied contemporary history and economics. Rath never married. He regained his Austrian citizenship in 2007 and lived there until his death, shortly after his 92nd birthday. He lectured about the country's Nazi past and political developments in Austria and Israel. In 2012, he published his memoirs in German, “Ari heißt Löwe” (Ari Means Lion). Rath died on 13 January 2017 in Vienna at the age of 92.