Chaim Kugel

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Chaim Kugel ({{langx|he|חיים קוגל}}; April 25, 1897 – February 4, 1953) was a Jewish politician and civil servant. He was member of the Czechoslovak parliament on behalf of the Jewish Party, the first chairman of the Holon local council and, upon its declaration as a city, its first mayor.[https://tidhar.tourolib.org/tidhar/view/4/1978 Dr. Chaim Kugel, D.Tidhar, Encyclopedia le-halutse ha-yishuv u-vonav 1950, Vol. 4, p. 1978][https://web.archive.org/web/20141210110123/http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/munkacs/kugel.asp The History of the Munkács Community Before the Holocaust. The Munkács Zionist Movement in the Interwar Period. Chaim Kugel]

Chaim Kugel was born in Minsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to the family of Nahum and Reizel nee Fry. He received his doctorate in economics and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague.

Kugel was a founder (1924) and the director of the Munkács Hebrew Gymnasium.[https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/munkacs/hebrew_gymnasium.asp The Munkács Hebrew Gymnasium]

His grandson, Chen Kugel, is a forensic physician and director of the Israeli L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine (2013–).

The {{ill|Kugel Prize|he|פרס קוגל}} for literature and science books has been awarded by the Holon Municipality since 1952.