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Bergert, Dr. Jacob

Bergert, Dr. Jacob

He lived in Tiberias and was a doctor and public activist. Served in the local committee together with the rabbi of the city, Rabbi Abulafia. He was sent to Tiberias to serve as a physician on behalf of the Aid Society of the Jews of Amsterdam and was highly regarded. He also ran a pharmacy. At the beginning of 1913 he was charged with giving medicine to a patient and causing her death. The pharmacy was closed and reopened after the doctor’s innocence was proved. When World War I broke out when Turkey joined the war with Germany, a general mobilization of doctors was announced. Among those present was Dr. Bergert, who served in the southern front, was in Beersheba and died in 1917 in one of the battles between the British and the Turks on the Sinai-Palestine border. His burial place is unknown.

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