Born in the Hungarian part of
Austria-Hungary, Gross was educated at a
heder and
yeshivas, and was a member of Young
Agudat Yisrael in
Translyvania, later becoming the secretary of the Transylvanian branch of Agudat Yisrael. During
World War II he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp, and his wife and two children were killed in
Auschwitz. After his camp was liberated by the
Red Army, he and some friends established an absorption centre for Holocaust orphans and orphans of the
Theresienstadt concentration camp expulsion. In 1950 he
emigrated to Israel, where he worked for the
Central Bureau of Statistics. He was on the
Religious Torah Front list (an alliance of Agudat Yisrael and
Poalei Agudat Yisrael) for the
1955 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 2 March 1959 as a replacement for the deceased
Zalman Ben-Ya'akov. Although he lost his seat in the
November 1959 elections, he returned to the Knesset as a replacement for the deceased
Binyamin Mintz on 30 May 1961. He retained his seat in elections in
1961,
1965 and
1969, but resigned his seat on 27 November 1972, and was replaced by
Ya'akov Mizrahi. Gross was given a place on the Religious Torah Front for the
1973 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he returned to the Knesset again on 23 November 1975 as a replacement for
Menachem Porush. He went on to retain his seat in the
1977 elections, but lost it for a final time in the
1981 elections. During his tenure in the Knesset, he was involved in trying to eliminate the court
oath and to save moshav
Kfar Gidon from collapse. He died in 2003 at the age of 94. ==References==