John Stanley Grauel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American minister, American Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member of the famed refugee ship the SS Exodus-1947 and a secret "Haganah" operative.
Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1917
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 06-Sep-1986
Profession: Aliyah Bet activists
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John Stanley Grauel
- John Stanley Grauel (December 12, 1917 – September 6, 1986, also nicknamed "John the Priest" after Prester John) was a Methodist minister and American Christian Zionist leader.
- He was a crew member of the famed refugee ship the SS Exodus-1947 and a secret "Haganah" operative.
- Grauel is credited with being the key individual who persuaded the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to recommend for the Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating the State of Israel.
- In a speech to the Jewish Agency, Golda Meir, referred to his testimony as the first appeal by a “priest, a perfectly worthy gentile, a priori, no Jewish witness was to be believed.”
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