MY YEARS WITH DAD

Dr. Moshe Sena (Kleinbaum) was a rising star in the sky of Polish Jewry in the 1930s. As a 23-year-old medical student, he was elected chairman of the Zionist Organization of Polish Jews. Shortly after his arrival in Israel in 1940, he was appointed head of the national headquarters of the "Haganah". Sena was considered the country's defense minister on the way and the possible successor of David Ben-Gurion, but in 1946 a conceptual rift between the two was revealed. Sena formulated a pro-Soviet orientation for the Zionist movement and was one of the founders of the United Workers' Party (MPF), which was then the largest and main left-wing party in Israel. The left turn in his views led him to split from MPF and join the Israeli Communist Party (MKI) in 1954, and he We will be the most prominent of its Jewish leaders. These moves condemned him to isolation and disconnection from most of his supporters and admirers in the past. In 1965, against the background of the worsening of the pro