Former B’nai B’rith International Vice President (2017-2019) Dr. Avraham Huli passed away on April 3 at the age of 82 following a gallant battle against the ravages of diabetes.

He held a Ph.D. in Business Administration and was recognized as one of the first experts in organizational excellence, authoring a number of books on the topic. He served as head of the Quality Department in the IDF Signal Corps before decommissioning as Lieutenant Colonel in 1984, after which he served as vice president of Quality and Customer Satisfaction at Motorola Israel.

From1999–2004 Huli was chairman of the Israel Society for Quality, developing in 2001 the “National Excellence and Quality of Life Index in Israel as a Democratic State” in collaboration with the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), including sub-indices for measuring violence in sports and governmental corruption.

Volunteer Activities

After retiring from Motorola in 2006, Huli devoted most of his time to volunteerism, merging his expertise in quality management with the values of volunteerism and mutual responsibility in all his activities.

Among Huli’s volunteer activities:

President of the B’nai B’rith Israel Tzabar Lodge and mentor to a B’nai B’rith Israel improvement team
Co-founder of TZEALA (Citizens’ Teams for Improving Society)
Chairman of the International Association for the Heritage of Greek Jewry in Israel
Public representative on the Public Council for Statistics
Founder of the “National House of Excellence” initiative

He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Society for Quality (2019) and a recognition from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for contributions to quality index research in community medicine (2021).

Huli was particularly engaged in preserving the history and culture of the Jewish communities in Greece, focusing on the preservation of the heritage of Kastoria Jewry in Greece, a community from which many of the founders of Moshav Tzur Moshe, where he grew up, made aliya—including his parents.

Jewish Rescuer Citation

Huli was first exposed to the phenomena of Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust through his membership in the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Executive Committee (2016-2019) which has championed the cause of Jewish rescuers for the past 30 years. He devoted significant efforts to research and nominated rescuers for the “Jewish Rescuers Citation”—a joint project of the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem and Committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust—becoming the greatest individual source of nominees—77 (out of 667 total recipients to date).

Huli also established, independently, the Jews Rescue Jews (JRJ) website and produced the two-hour film “Recognition,” (director: Shosi Ben Hamo; academic advisor: Professor Gideon Greif), in order to help set the historic record of Jewish heroism straight. The film was launched at the Jerusalem Cinematheque in 2022 and broadcast online by B’nai B’rith to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026.

Huli worked vigorously to change the way the Holocaust is remembered and taught, delivering numerous speeches on the phenomenon of Jewish rescue to students and groups. He sought to emphasize Jewish mutual responsibility and the heroic stories of Jews who risked their lives to save other Jews, a subject that in his view did not receive sufficient exposure in the traditional historical narrative. B’nai B’rith World Center Director Alan Schneider noted, “No goal was too high for Avraham to aspire to. He was passionate and devoted to the issues he believed in and saw volunteering as a supreme value and social excellence as a national goal. His leadership will be sorely missed.”

May his memory be a blessing.