page_title: Edmond Wilhelm Brillant
section_title: In ZIM Navigation Company
hierarchical_section_title: Edmond Wilhelm Brillant / In ZIM Navigation Company
caption_attribution_description: Edmond left side Marine Architect SS Shalom project in Chantiers de l'Atlantique
context_page_description: Edmond Wilhelm Brillant the Levi was a Polish-born Israeli naval architect, Hagana member, among the founding fathers of the Israeli navy and was notable for assisting the Israeli Merchant Marine in several major projects, including the nations' first passenger liner, SS Shalom through the ZIM Navigation company, now Zim Integrated Shipping Services. He dedicated his greatest efforts to building up the young states' maritime capability, both civil and military. Brillant was born in Jaroslaw Galicia, Poland, and was the youngest of the four sons of the famous pharmacist Wiktor Brillant and his wife Laura Brillant.
  Brillant was a flight amateur and joined the gliding club of Jaroslaw at the age of 13. There he studied building gliders, aircraft, gliding and flight.
  Brillant graduated from the August Witkowski Gymnasium in Jaroslaw in 1934, and started his MD studies. However, since he had a strong technical aptitude, Brillant started learning precision mechanics in Lviv. He immigrated to Israel in 1936 aboard Polonia from Port of Constanţa with a Hebrew Technion Certificate, and resided in Haifa.
context_section_description: Brillant was borrowed from the Navy by ZIM in order to lead three projects of merchant marine ship building. 
  He moved to France, and led the SS Shalom project in Chantiers de l'Atlantique. This ship was the largest passenger ship of ZIM and was the flagship. After then, he moved to Toulon to manage the building of three freight ships: Keshet (Bow), Noga (Venus) and Mazal (Luck).
  In 1963, Brillant asked the IDF attaché in Paris for permission to retire from the Navy, even though they requested him to continue his service for the vital naval operation known as the Cherbourg Project.
  In 1969, while he was a technical superintendent in ZIM Europe lines, Brillant organised and led  the logistic and technical effort behind the fueling of the 5 Sa'ar 3 class missile boats that escaped Cherbourg Harbour in operation Noah. The fuelling- freight ships that were modified by him were MV Lea to fuel in Gibraltar and MV Nahariyah as a backup in the Bay of Biscay.
caption: SS Shalom Project, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, 1963 – Edmond Brillant at the left
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