 abraham marek klingberg (born 1918) â known as marcus a. klingberg â is a retired israeli scientist and the highest ranking soviet spy ever caught in israel. the case of klingberg is regarded one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the state of israel. ==biography== ===early life=== klingberg was born in warsaw, poland, in 1918, to a hasidic jewish family of rabbinical lineage. in his youth, he lived for a time with his grandfather, rabbi moshe chaim klingberg. his parents sent him to a cheder, or jewish religious school. as a teenager, he turned his back on religious life and enrolled in a regular high school. in 1935, klingberg began studying medicine at the university of warsaw. in 1939, when world war ii started with the german invasion of poland, klingberg escaped to the soviet union. there, he completed his medical studies in minsk. ===world war ii=== on june 22, 1941, the first day of the german invasion of the soviet union, he volunteered for the red army, and served as a medical officer on the front lines until october 1941, when he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel. he recovered, and was then assigned to perm in the urals as an epidemiologist. in 1943, he attended the postgraduate course in epidemiology in moscow at the central institute for advanced medical training and finished it with distinction. that same year, he was part of a team that stopped an epidemic in the urals. he also made a contribution into research towards typhoid fever. toward the end of december 1943, the first parts of byelorussia were retaken by the red army and klingberg became chief epidemiologist of the byelorussian republic. at the end of the war, klingberg was discharged from the red army with the rank of captain, and returned to poland. there he found out that his parents and his only brother died on 19 august 1942 in the treblinka extermination camp. in warsaw he served as acting chief epidemiologist at the polish ministry of health. while living in post-war poland, klingberg met wanda yashinskaya, a microbiologist by profession and a survivor of the warsaw ghetto. she had escaped and managed to survive the war due to her aryan appearance. they married, and in 1946, they decided to emigrate to the west. they moved to sweden shortly afterward, where their daughter sylvia was born. it is believed that klingberg first came into contact with soviet intelligence while living in sweden.marcus klingberg - biography on ynetnews ===life in israel=== in november 1948, klingberg immigrated to the newly formed state of israel, which was in the closing stages of its [[1948 arab-israeli war|wa
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