Israel Rogosin was an American industrialist in the textile industry and a philanthropist.
11 Facts About Israel Rogosin
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Israel Rogosin's father came to the United States in 1890 upon request of the head of the Yeshiva in Valozhyn, the Netziv, in order to collect funds for it.
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Samuel Israel Rogosin founded a small textile mill in Brooklyn in 1895 and was joined by his wife and four children a year later.
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The mill employed about 200 workers in 1912 and due to Israel's successful management and acquisition of other mills, Rogosin employed in 1920 about a thousand workers in five mills.
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In 1963 Israel Rogosin sold his shares in the Beaunit Corp.
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In 1966 Israel Rogosin donated $1 million to the establishment of a Center for Jewish Ethics at Yeshiva University in New York [3].
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Israel Rogosin's only son Lionel Rogosin, an independent American filmmaker, was born in 1924.
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Israel Rogosin founded The Rogosin Institute, a not-for-profit medical treatment and research institution for kidney disease in New York City, by giving a total of 4 million dollars in 1962 and 1965.
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In 1960, Israel Rogosin donated money to plant a 100,000 tree pulp forest near Ruhama in the Northern Negev.
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Israel Rogosin is still to this day one of the top donors in the history of Israel.
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All together Mr Rogosin donated 16 million dollars in the 1960s to Israel.