Aleksandras Machtas

Aleksandras Ziselis Machtas (Hebrew: אלכסנדר מאכט also Alexander-Zisel Macht, Sasha Maht; 6 October 1892 – 14 January 1973) was a Lithuanian chess master.

[1] Machtas, a member of the Lithuanian Sports Club Makabi, won 7 chess championships in the first independent republic of Lithuania: in 1923–24, 1926–28, and again in 1931–32.

In 1936, he emigrated with his family (son Yaacov Macht and others) to Palestine (then British Mandate).

[5] In British Palestine and later on in Israel, he founded and was the manager of the Industrial Bank in Tel Aviv.

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