Emanuel Abraham Rosen - early Israeli resident

     By   Nathan  Aaron Rosen,  New-York Lawner

     Born in Philadelphia, Pensylvania, in 1925 over his parent’s drug  store at Front and  Noris streets, he was the son of Haim Solonon and Rebecca  Kotzin Rosen.  Descended from both Lubavitch and Misnaged rabbinic dynasties and growing in a  staunchly  Zionist home, he spoke Hebrew before English and was both a yeshiva student and active member oh  Habonim.
     Drafting during World War II, he served in the Philippines and with with the Occupation Force in Japan. Discharged in 1946,  he attended  Ursinus College,  was on the football and swimming  teams, and was active in organization  “Materials for  Palestine (later for Israel)” and  Zionist Organization of America. He graduated with with a Bachelor of Science of Science in 1949.
     Back  to  Israel ‘oficially’.  Emanuel Rosen  went to Kibbutz  Kfar Giladi  as  a  Habon im  member, worked   for Kupat Holim’s  Zammenhoff Clinic inTel-Aviv, then moved to Jerusalem to set up the tablet  production line for     pharmaceutical  Rafa Laboratories during the day;  at night he wrote ,  produced and  directed radio programs for  Kol Zion  LaGolah, Israel’s  foreign language broadcasts.
     Returning  to   the US to attend St. Louis College of Pharmacy,  he  earned a  BS in Pharmacy in 1953 and Masters   degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the University of Kansas City School and  Pharmacy in  1956.
     During  this period he married Golda Singer Rosen and established a family:  son Nathan  Aaron, daughter Miriam Beth and son Daniel Jay.
     A licensed  Pharmacist,  Emanual Rosen’s career expanded to  include Research and Development, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Production, Regulatory Affairs, and a  stint of lecturing  on Pharmacology at Temple University.  He worked for. Among others, Wyeth Laboratories in Philadelphia, and set up Federated   Pharmaceuticals’ Jamaica, West Indies, during manufacturing plant,  appearing in    LIFE Magazine’s 1960 article on Jamaica.
     Following the Six Day War he worked with Abic Laboratories in Israel, then went on to become the first Jew to receive a key tj the Executive washroom at Parke Davis, in Detroit, in 1968, before founding  EARE’  Consulting  Service to serve the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device  industries.
     Fulfilling    his  own  and his parent’s  lifelong  dream, Emanuel Rosen finally  made   Aliyah  in 1974 with his second wife, Ruby Sugarman Lassoff Rosen.  Moving  to Eilat,  he w2as made Chief Pharmacist oh the Josephtal Medical  Center  and Chief Southern Regional Pharmacist [ from Moshav Paran  Sharem-el-Shiekh]   for Kupat Holim Calit.  They bought a house which Ruby  re-designed  and he and his friends rebuit  by hand, moving in with their two  mini- Schnauzers in 1978.   His retirement in 1968 was followed   shortly by Ruby’s  death after a long battle with cancer.
     Re-activating  European Associqtion of  Resource Economists (EARE) Consulting Service,  he went on to become the foremost authority (president)  on U.S.  Food and Drug  Administration (F,D.A.)  regulations in Israel, and meet his third wife, Siri.
   His  achievements as a  Regulatory Consultant   included  receiving approval for an  astonishing  90% of all section 510(k) applications made by EARE’ – including  one approval in a record 17 days – and co-organizing  the first and only US Food and DRUG  administration Seminar I, Israel given entirely by active FDA personel.
      He loved Eilat,   it’s  desert and sea, and was   involved in Project  Renewal, AACII,  SPCA,  and Civil Defence.   He  was a member of the first Masorti   (Conservative) synagogue  in Eilat and was a founder of  Masorti     “ TAGEL ARAVA   - the Center for Tradition and Change in Eilat” under the  direction of Rabi Shmuel  Shaish.
      He was a Free Mason, following his uncles Mayer and  Jach Kotzin,  imitated in 1960 into the  Friendly Lodge of Jamaica. He  aqdvanced  to the Seventh  Degree  and was a Provost and  Judge in the King Solomon Lodge of Perfection as well as a member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Select Master Mason and Super-Exellent  Mason.
     Children and animals  loved and  rusted  him,  children  especially   of   stage magic, started as a  teenager,  stage magic,      encourage under the  tutelage of the famous  Stage Nagican Dante’ and continued   through college, the army, etc.         
     He is survived    by his     wife, Siri {Shir-El}       Jones-Rosen of Eilat Israel,  on  Nathan Aaron Rosen and wife, Priva Simon,  of New-York  Cuty,      Daniel  Jay  Rosen and  wife,  Deborah,  Kansas City,  Missouri, daughter, Miriam Beth  Wallicr and husband, Mark.  Of Lincoln, Nebraska;  related Rosen-Werner Zwillinger families of Angeles, California;  and six grandchildren,  Jacob.  Benjamin,  Rachel,  Shoshana, Ramar and Mordechai,  as well as his step-daughter Abie Lassoff  White of Seattle, Washington,  adopted daughter  Sarah Koren of  Herzliya,  Israel and brother Noam Rosen,  of Philadelphia.
     Emanuel Rosen was buried in 2008 in Eilat, Isreel,  overlooki,g the city, desert and Sea and next to  his  beloved second wife Ruby,  of San-Francisco and and      Eilat. He was preceded in death by his previous wife  Golda  Singer Rosen, of Kansas City,  Missouri.
     The      family suggests contribution be made to a charity of   choice or to”TAGEL ARAVA – the Center for Tradition and Change in Eilat”, P.O.Box 178, Eilat, Israel.