Shaike Dan

Shaike Dan
שייקה דן
Born
Yeshayahu Trachtenberg

(1909-11-15)15 November 1909
Lipcani, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (now Moldova)
Died2 March 1994(1994-03-02) (aged 84)
NationalityIsraeli
Occupation(s)Parachutist, founding member of Nativ
Known forRescuing Allied pilots and Jews from Romania during World War II
AwardsYigal Alon Award (2017, posthumously)
A group of Jewish paratroopers, Shaike Dan is third from the right, sitting, 1944.

Shaike Dan (November 15, 1909 - March 2, 1994) was one of the Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine sent to Eastern European countries occupied by the Nazis. Dan was one of the founders of Nativ.