Ernst Simon
Ernst Akiva Simon (Hebrew: עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון; March 15, 1900 – August 18, 1988) was a German-Jewish educator and religious philosopher who was born in Berlin and died in Jerusalem. == Teaching career and political activism == In the 1920s, Ernst Simon co-founded Brit Shalom along with Martin Buber, an organization espousing a binational solution for promoting the co-existence of Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel.