José Aboulker

José Aboulker
Born(1920-03-05)5 March 1920
Algiers, Algeria
Died17 November 2009(2009-11-17) (aged 89)
Manosque, France

José Aboulker (5 March 1920 17 November 2009) was an Algerian Jew and the leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in French Algeria during World War II. He received the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the Croix de Guerre, and was made a Companion of the Liberation and a Commander of the Légion d'honneur. After the war, he became a neurosurgeon and a political figure in France, who advocated for the political rights of Algerian Muslims.