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List Of Members Of The Fifth Knesset
The 120 members of the fifth Knesset were elected on 1 August 1961. The breakdown by party was as follows: * Mapai: 42 *Herut: 17 * Liberal Party: 17 *National Religious Party: 12 *Mapam: 9 *Ahdut HaAvoda: 8 * Maki: 5 * Agudat Yisrael: 4 *Poalei Agudat Yisrael: 2 *Cooperation and Brotherhood: 2 *Progress and Development Progress and Development ( he, קידמה ופיתוח, ''Kidma VePituah''; ar, تقدم وتطور) was an Arab satellite list in Israel. History Progress and Development was established in 1959, drawing its support from the Galilee area. Like ...: 2 Members of the Fifth Knesset Replacements External linksMembers of the Fifth KnessetKnesset website {{Knesset members 05 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with the exception of checks and balances from the courts and local governments). The Knesset passes all laws, elects the president and prime minister (although the latter is ceremonially appointed by the President), approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government, among other things. In addition, the Knesset elects the state comptroller. It also has the power to waive the immunity of its members, remove the president and the state comptroller from office, dissolve the government in a constructive vote of no confidence, and to dissolve itself and call new elections. The prime minister may also dissolve the Knesset. However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bar-Rav-Hai
David Bar-Rav-Hai (, 11 July 1894 – 15 July 1977) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai from 1949 until 1955, and again from 1956 until 1965. Biography Born David Borovoi in Nizhyn in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Bar-Rav-Hai joined the Zionist Students Organization in Odessa. In 1911, he moved to Germany, but returned to Russia in 1918 and joined the Young Zion movement, becoming secretary of the Jewish community in Odessa, until the Soviet authorities closed it down in 1920. Afterwards he joined the Zionist underground, and was arrested in 1922. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was released after 15 months and expelled from the country. In 1924, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he joined Hapoel Hatzair. He became a member of the workers councils in Haifa and Jerusalem, and was sent to Poland and Romania as an emissary. In 1933, he established a law office in Haifa. He was joined by his son, Meir, who stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Govrin
Akiva Govrin (; 12 August 1902 – 26 June 1980) was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister between December 1963 and January 1966, and was the country's first Minister of Tourism. Biography Born in the Podolia region of the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Govrin was one of the founders of the HeHalutz movement in Ukraine. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1922, and worked at Haifa Port and as a construction worker in Jerusalem, where he was one of the founders of the Jerusalem Workers' Council. In 1925 he became a member of the actions committee of the Histadrut, and headed its unions department between 1943 and 1949. In 1949 he was elected to the Knesset on Mapai's list and was appointed chairman of the Labor committee. He was re-elected in 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1961. On 1 December 1963 he was appointed Minister without Portfolio, and when Levi Eshkol formed a new government in December 1964, Govrin became the country's first Minister of Tourism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosef Fischer
Yosef Fischer (, born 11 February 1920, died 14 December 1992) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and its successors between 1959 and 1969. Biography Born in Budapest in Hungary, Fischer made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935. Between 1938 and 1940 he served in the British Army as a Haganah emissary, before working as a cadet in the Jewish Settlement Police in Hanita and the Haifa Bay area from 1940 until 1943. A Haganah instructor, he was commander of the Kfar Azar training camp in 1947. Between 1947 and 1949 he worked as a manager, before establishing a machine shop in 1949 and becoming active in the Small Industries Association. In 1952 he joined Mapai, and was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in 1959. He was re-elected in 1961 and 1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol ( he, לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ; 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik ( he, לוי יצחק שקולניק, links=no), was an Israeli statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in numerous senior roles, including Minister of Defense (1963–1967) and Minister of Finance (1952–1963). Eshkol was first appointed as Prime Minister following the resignation of David Ben-Gurion. He then led the party in the elections to the Sixth Knesset (1965) and won, remaining in office for six consecutive years. Shortly after taking office, Eshkol made several significant changes, among them the annulment of military rule over Israeli Arabs and a successful journey to the United States, being the first Israeli leader to be formally invited to the White House. His relations with American President Lyndon B. Johnson greatly af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosef Efrati
Yosef Efrati ( he, יוסף אפרתי, born 19 February 1897, died 8 February 1975) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1965. Biography Born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Efrati received his primary education in a ''heder''.Yosef Efrati: Particulars Knesset He made '' aliyah'' to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1914, and studied at an agricultural high school in Petah Tikva. In 1917 he joined the group that settled . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Eban
Abba Solomon Meir Eban (; he, אבא אבן ; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Early life Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 2 February 1915 to Lithuanian Jewish parents; his mother, Alida Sacks, was an aunt of Oliver Sacks, while his father, Avram Solomon, died while Eban was still an infant. Eban's mother moved to the United Kingdom at an early age. As a child, he recalled being sent to his grandfather's house every weekend to study the Hebrew language, Talmud, and Biblical literature. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amos Degani
Amos Degani ( he, עמוס דגני; 23 May 1926 – 29 July 2012) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1957 and 1969. Biography Born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, Degani was a member of HaNoar HaOved during his youth, becoming a member of its secretariat in 1942. He studied public administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Having been a co-ordinator for the Moshav Youth, he became a member of the Moshavim Movement's secretariat, and served as director of its Department of Youth Settlement and Security. He also worked as a trainer for immigrants in moshavim in the Negev desert. He joined Mapai in 1944, and was a director of its youth leadership. He was on the party's list for the 1955 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 19 December 1957 as a replacement for Aharon Remez. He retained his seat in elections in 1959 and 1961. In July 1965 he was amongst the Mapai members that left the part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan ( he, משה דיין; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in leaving the Mapai party and setting up the Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of prepare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Coren
Yitzhak Coren ( he, יצחק קורן, born 11 March 1911, died 22 June 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and the Alignment. Biography Born in Chişinău in the Russian Empire (now in Moldova), Coren studied law at university, and was certified as a lawyer. Whilst a student he was amongst the leadership of the Romanian Zionists Student Association. He served as secretary of Tze'irei Zion and was a member of the Zionist Federation of Bessarabia's presidium, editing their Yiddish language newspaper. On 1 May 1940 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine and became a member of the Haganah. Between 1941 and 1943 he worked as director of the Department of Information and Organization of the Histadrut's Supply Centre, before serving as secretary of the Moshavim Movement between 1944 and 1961. In 1949 he was amongst the founders of the "From Ma'abarot to Village" settlement project In 1959 Coren was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Cohen (politician)
Menachem Cohen ( he, מנחם כהן, 5 July 1922 – 11 March 1975) was an Israeli politician. Biography Born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era, Cohen helped organise illegal Jewish immigration from Syria. He worked as a director of the Neighbourhoods Department on Tel Aviv Workers Council, and was a representative of the neighbourhoods (in particular, the Hatikva Quarter) on Tel Aviv City Council. In the 1949 Knesset elections he was on the Mapai list, but failed to win a seat. Although he entered the Knesset on 19 May 1951 as a replacement for the deceased David Remez, Knesset website he lost his seat in the July 1951 elections. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herzl Berger
Dr Herzl Berger ( be, Герцаль Бергер; ; 31 July 1904 – 28 August 1962) was a Minsk-born Israeli activist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1962. Biography Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Berger attended the Reali High School in his home city. Between 1917 and 1921, he was a member of the Zionist Hashomer Hatzair and HaHaver youth movements, which had been banned by the Soviet authorities. In 1921 he moved to Berlin, where he joined the Right section of Poale Zion, serving as secretary of its central committee between 1930 and 1931. He also studied at the University of Jena and gained a doctorate in law and political science. In 1932, he moved to Poland, and between 1933 and 1934, was a member of the Poale Zion Socialist Zionists' central committee. He also worked on the editorial board of the '' Das Vert'' newspaper. In 1934, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he worked for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
