Aharon Ze'ev (; April 28, 1900âÂÂOctober 10, 1968) was an Israeli poet, writer (including writing for children), editor, and educator, a founder and chief education officer of the Education and Youth Corps of the IDF (1950-1963). He was born Aharon Ze'ev Weintraub in Sokoà Âów Podlaski, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire to the family of a merchant Zvi Weintraub. In order to emigrate to Palestine (in 1925), he obtained the documents under the surname Czarniecki and used this surname until the establishment of the state of Israel.