Ferber Benary Lvovich (20 November 1941, Kirov) — design engineer.

Benary Ferber was born in Kirov, where his mother, Yudit Ferber (née Kleinman) (1914), was in evacuation. His father went missing in action on the fronts of World War II in 1941.

In 1963, he graduated from the Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute. While still a student, he worked as a воспитатель (educator) at the Kalupi boarding school. In 1963, he worked as a teacher at the Kaigi eight-year school.

He was twice called up for military service:

  • 1963–1965 — private in Kaliningrad 

  • 1968–1970 — technician in Krustpils 

In 1965, he began working as a senior technician at the Special Design Bureau of the Riga Electrotechnical Factory VEF, and soon became an engineer. After completing his military service in 1970, he continued working at the VEF design bureau as a design engineer.

Together with his mother, he planned to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence.

He was awarded the medal “Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.”

Family:

Lev Ferber (1914–1941) — father
Yudit Ferber (née Kleinman) (1914) — mother
Mark Ferber (1938) — cousin (mother’s sister’s son)