Eliezer Krantz (Arab June)

Mushulam Eliezer Krantz (22 June 1913 - 28 December 1972) was an Israeli politician and leader of the Gaza Authority from its creation until his life imprisonment in 1972 which resulted in the GA's immediate absorption into the State of Israel.

From 1968 to 1972 he ruled a part of occupied Sinai that was called the Gaza Authority, a puppet state of Israel intended to host Israeli Arabs while the Israel-Arab conflict was ongoing. However, using the fear of an Arab uprising during the Six-Day War as an excuse, his brutal regime led almost genocidal policies towards the Arab populations of the GA. He was sentanced to life imprisonment for abuse of office, murder and war crimes in 1972 and was killed later that year by a Jordanian mortar strike on Ofer Prison.

Krantz was a politician who was disliked by most, and Levi Eshkol's decision to place him in charge of the Gaza Authority was highly criticised.