Rabbi Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat ( he, אַבְרָהָם יְהוּדָה גּוֹלְדְּרָאט, born 1912, died 17 June 1973) was an Israeli journalist and politician who served as a member of the first Knesset between 1949 and 1951.

Biography

Born in

Kielce Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...

in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Goldrat was certified as a rabbi following his studies. He served as secretary of the city's Young ''Agudath Israel'' branch, and worked as a journalist for the ''Der Vad'' newspaper in Warsaw. In 1933, he made

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to Mandatory Palestine. He became secretary of

Poalei Agudat Yisrael Poalei Agudat Yisrael ( he, פועלי אגודת ישראל, , Agudat Yisrael Workers) was a trade union and Jewish political party in Poland and a minor political party in Israel. It was also known as PAI or PAGI, its Hebrew acronym (Hebrew: o ...

, and also edited ''HaYesod'', a weekly publication, and ''Sha'arim'', a newspaper. In the elections for the first Knesset in 1949, he won a seat on the United Religious Front list, an alliance of the four major religious parties. He lost his seat in the 1951 elections. In 1954, he left Poalei Agudat Yisrael, and later joined the National Religious Party, becoming a member of its directorate and head of its Culture and Information department. In 1967, he became head of the Rambam Library in Tel Aviv, a position he held until 1973, the year in which he died. He is the father of

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