| Personal data |
| Surname | Vald |
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| Name | Grigory |
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| Patronym | Borisovich |
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| Birth year | 1938 |
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| Birth month | 3 |
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| Birth day | 18 |
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| birth_place | Kharkiv, Ukraine |
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Gets Shmuel (1895)
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| Surname | Gets |
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| Name | Shmuel |
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| Birth year | 1895 |
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| Birth month | 4 |
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| Birth day | 2 |
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| birth_place | Shavli [Šiauliai] |
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Gets (Getz) Shmuel (2 April 1895, Shavli [Šiauliai]) — public figure.
Shmuel Gets was trained as an economist. Since 1911, he was a member of a Zionist youth organisation. In 1917, he, alongside Joseph Trumpeldor, led the HeHalutz (Pioneer) movement. From 1919 to 1925, he headed the HeHalutz movement in Lithuania.
Shmuel Gets was a member of the Jewish National Council in Lithuania and served as an authorised representative of the then Jewish Ministry. From 1926, he headed Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund) in Lithuania and served as the official representative of Palestine in Latvia. He was also Chairman of the Riga Committee of Zionist Organisations.