Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gershom Gustav Schocken (born 29 September 1912, died 20 December 1990) was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959. Born in Zwickau in Germany, Schocken studied at the University of Heidelberg and the London School of Economics. Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power, he made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1933 one year before the rest of his family, and got a job at Anglo-Palestine Bank, where he remained until 1936.