Nehemia Sirkis

Nehemia Sirkis (Hebrew: נחמיה סירקיס; 22 March 1932 – 2018) was an Israeli sports shooter and firearms designer.^[1]

Nehemia Sirkis

Personal information
Native name	נחמיה סירקיס
Born	(1932-03-22)22 March 1932 Tel Aviv, Israel
Died	2018 (aged 85–86) United States
Sport
Sport	Sports shooting

Background

Sirkis competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.^[2] He also competed at the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games.^[3] Sirkis was a member of the Israeli national shooting team for 20 years and won the Israeli title seven times during his athletic career.

In later years, Sirkis became a noted designer of various US and Israeli firearms, including the Detonics Pocket 9, the Dan sniper rifle^[1] and the Sardius SD-9 pistol, which would serve as a base for the Intratec CAT line of pistols. He died in the United States in 2018.^[4]