Enzo Sereni (17 April 1905 – 18 November 1944) was an Italian Socialist Zionist, co-founder of kibbutz Givat Brenner, celebrated intellectual, advocate of Jewish-Arab co-existence and a Jewish Brigade officer who was parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy during World War II, captured by the Germans and executed in Dachau concentration camp.

[3] [4] After obtaining his PhD in philosophy from the University of Rome, he along with his wife and infant daughter, emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1927.

[citation needed] Sereni was sent to Europe in 1931–1934 to help bring people to Palestine through the Youth Aliyah,[1] and was briefly detained by the Gestapo.

Sereni got in trouble with his British superior officers for his Zionist views and was imprisoned briefly for forging passports.

Sereni then helped organize the Jewish parachute unit of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) that sent agents into occupied Europe.