Vapne Khona Meyerovich (1949)

Vapne (Wapne) Khona Meyerovich (born 13 October 1949, Riga) – civil engineer.

Khona Vapne was born into the family of Meyer Khonovich Vapne (b. 1924, Līvāni, Latvia), a mechanical engineer, and Sheva Yakovlevna Vapne (née Latvinskaya) (b. 1928, Riga), a clerical worker.

He graduated from Secondary School No. 15 in 1966 and worked as a sewing machine mechanic trainee at the DOSAAF complex (1966–1967). He studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Riga Polytechnic Institute (1967–1973).

From 1972 to 1977, he worked as a senior technician, architectural engineer, and senior architect in the architectural department of Latgiproprombyt. From 1977 to 1978, he worked as a civil engineer in the design department of the Riga Road Administration.

In 1978, Khona Vapne was granted permission to emigrate to Israel, where his father Meyer Khonovich Vapne (b. 1924) had been living since 1973.

Family:

Meyer Khonovich Vapne (b. 1924) – father
Sheva Yakovlevna Vapne (née Latvinskaya) (b. 1928) – mother
Bella Meyerovna Vapne (b. 1958, Riga) – sister