Mr. Avram(Dolphy) Goldstein-Goren
	Avram (Dolphi) Goldstein-Goren, the founder of the Cukier, Goldtein-Goren Foundation, was born on July 28, 1905 in Podu Turcului, a shtatl in the district of Tecuci, in Romania. Mr. Avram (Dolphi) Goldstein-Goren is the son of Itzhak Moshe (IMG) Goldstein, a prominent local businessman, and Betty (Bracha) Wechsler of Iasi. He attended contemporarily both Law School and Business School at the University of Bucharest (1924-1927) and was a member of the Romanian Bar from 1927 to 1941, when all Jews were expelled from it. In 1939 he married Stella Cukier, the daughter of Mordechai Meir Cukier, a textile manufacturer and businessman who had emigrated from Poland a few years earlier, and Ghitla Gold. Avram and Stella had four children. Two sons, Alexander and James, who live in New York City, and two daughters, Viviana and Micaela, who live respectively in Rome and Milan, Italy. After managing a family controlled bank and helping his father in his cereal exports and forest exploitation businesses in Tecuci, Avram moved to Bucharest where he was a manager and a director of Sarcomit S.A., a textile importing and trading company and of Filsar S.A. In April 1944 Avram left Romania for Palestine with his wife, eldest son and his in-laws. From 1945 to 1947 he was a director and part owner of the Palestine British Bank and in 1945 he also established Palbric, an international trading company. At the end of 1945 Avram contracted to buy very large quantities of the raw cotton that had accumulated in Egypt during the war in order to have it spun in Italy into yarn to be shipped back to the Middle East. In mid-1946 he needed to relocate to Milan, Italy and he brought over his family. Since then he has lived in Milan. In 1946 he established the Mediterranean Car Agency Ltd. for the import of Fiat vehicles to the Middle East first and, after 1948, only to Israel. Starting in the early fifties, Avram extended his business activities to France (construction), Canada (real estate), United States ( investment in shares and company takeovers) and, in the seventies, Great Britain, where he was a shareholder and director of Keyser Ullman Ltd., a merchant bank that was eventually merged into the Charterhouse Group. He remained a director of Keyser Ullmann, Geneve, until 1983. On November 26, 2005, four months after a spectacular celebration on the beach, in Forte dei Marmi, of his one hundreath birthday, which he greatly enjoyed surrounded lovingly by all his family and by friends from all over the world, Dolphy passed away quietly in his Milan home. It was a peaceful ending to a tumultuous and wonderful life of which he savored every minute. He was buried at Nachalet Itzhak in Tel Aviv, next to his beloved wife, Stella, and to his parents, Itzhak Moshe (IMG) and Bracha Goldstein.
	Mr. Mordechai Meir (Max) Cukier
	Mordechai Meir (Max) Cukier was born in Lodz, Poland in 1888, the son of a devout Chassid and a mother born to a very wealthy and worldly industrial family. He was given only a formal religious education and learned secular subjects from his older sisters. At 16 he was sent to Vienna for 1 year and returned with a weaver's diploma. In 1914 he married Gittel (Guta) Gold and they had three children: Stella, who married Avram (Dolphi) Goldstein, Jacob (Jurek), who married Wanda Schechter and Irena (Irca), who married first Dr. Jacha Fromchenko and then Dr. Aristide Basarab. By age thirteen he rebelled against his father, abandoned Torah studies and was employed in a textile factory. The textile business in Lodz was very cyclical. World War I and the Great Depression aggravated this characteristic and periods of great affluence alternated with very hard times. In turns, as required, Max traded in textiles and/or manufactured them. In 1930 he went to Romania to look for employment. He set up a manufacturing business in Jassi in partnership with a member of a very prominent local textile family: Arthur Wechsler, Dolphi's uncle. By 1936 they had moved the business to Bucharest. In April 1944, together with Dolphi and his family, Max left Romania for Palestine with Guta and Irca. Jurek stayed behind to marry his fiancée, and they arrived in Palestine a few months later. In 1945 Max and Dolphi in partnership with Ephraim Ilin, contracted to buy in Egypt cotton to be spun in Italy for re-export to Palestine. The business was extremely lucrative but Max was itching to get back into textile manufacturing. In 1960 he and Dolphi, together with Dolphi's uncle, Carol Wechsler, Arthur's older brother, and the latter's son-in-law, Isi Leventer built a large spinning mill in Dimona, Dimona Fibers, where, at the apex, they employed 1,800 workers. In 1962 his dear Guta passes away leaving an enormous void. By 1970 the partnership in Dimona Fibers was falling apart and Max and Dolphi ended-up 100% owners. With Dolphi travelling all over the world and Max over 80 years old the only solution was to sell. Pinchas Sapir, a friend of Dolphi's, found a buyer at a good price but with a string attached: the proceeds would go towards building the new University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva. This is how the Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Foundation was born. Having lived a very full, interesting and successful life, Max Cukier died on May 10, 1972 in his house on Shderot Rothschild, in Tel-Aviv.

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