Editing Daniel Kahneman (section)

== Early life ==
Daniel Kahneman was born in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]], on March 5, 1934 while his mother Rachel (née Shenzon) was visiting her family.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/facts/ |title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002 |publisher=NobelPrize.org |access-date=February 13, 2020 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414083258/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/facts/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last=Hershey |first=Robert D |last2=Traub |first2=Alex |date=March 27, 2024 |title=Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240328025342/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html |archive-date=March 28, 2024 |accessdate=March 27, 2024 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Ferry |first=Georgina |date=4 April 2024 |title=Daniel Kahneman Obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/04/daniel-kahneman-obituary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404113306/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/04/daniel-kahneman-obituary |archive-date=4 April 2024 |access-date=March 30, 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> His parents were [[Lithuanian Jews]] who had emigrated to France in the early 1920s.<ref name = NYT/> He spent his childhood years in Paris. Kahneman and his family were in Paris when it was [[Paris in World War II|occupied by Nazi Germany]] in 1940. His father, Efrayim, was picked up in the first major round-up of [[French Jews]], but he was released after six weeks due to the intervention of his employer, [[La Cagoule]] backer [[Eugène Schueller]].<ref name="MLTUP2016">{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Michael |title= The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds |publisher= Penguin Random House |isbn=9780141983042 |year= 2017}}</ref>{{rp|52}} The family was on the run for the remainder of the war but survived except for Efrayim who died of [[diabetes]] in 1944.<ref name = NYT/> Kahneman and his family then moved to [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandatory Palestine]] in 1948, just before the creation of the state of [[History of Israel (1948–present)|Israel]].<ref name="NobelPrize Bio 2002" />

Kahneman wrote of his experience in [[Vichy France|Nazi-occupied France]], explaining in part why he entered the field of psychology:
{{blockquote|It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others – the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me. I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting.|source= NobelPrize Bio 2002 }}