Yaakov Ben-Tor (יעקב בן-תור; 1910–2002) was an Israeli geologist. == Biography == Ben-Tor was born as Kurt Winter in the Baltic city of Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, (since 1945 Kaliningrad, now in Russia) in 1910. Winter began studying Law at the University of Königsberg, continuing in Berlin and then studied Linguistics at the ...