Avraham Kalfon ( he, אברהם כלפון, born 16 December 1900, died 4 July 1983) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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 ...

for

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger in ...

between 1952 and 1955.

Biography

Born in

Tiberias Tiberias ( ; he, טְבֶרְיָה, ; ar, طبريا, Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's Fo ...

during the Ottoman era, Kalfon was educated at an

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school and the

Hebrew Reali School , motto_translation = ''Walk Humbly'' , address = Hertzel 16 , city = Haifa , zipcode = 3312103 , country = Israel , coordinates = , other_name ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

. In 1919 he became secretary of the Jewish community in the city, serving until 1923, when he became a member of its committee. He was also amongst the founders of the Tehiya association to promote the Hebrew language. In 1924, he was appointed director of the Organisation Department of the

Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...

's Executive Committee, and also managed a Histadrut club for Arab workers. In 1926, he helped establish the Bialik Technical and Trade High School, serving on its board until 1935. In 1927, he became chairman of the Haifa Sephardi Committee, a position he held until 1983. A member of

, he was on the party's list for the 1951 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 13 July 1952 as a replacement for the deceased

Eliezer Kaplan Eliezer Kaplan ( he, אליעזר קפלן; be, Эліэзер Каплан; ) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy ...

.Knesset Members in the Second Knesset
Knesset website He lost his seat in the 1955 elections and began working as a Hebrew teacher at the Reali school. In 1958, he was appointed head of the

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, where he worked until 1966. He also served as chairman of District Committee of the Department for Emergency Supplies. He died in 1983 at the age of 82.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalfron, Avraham 1900 births 1983 deaths People from Tiberias Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine Israeli educators Israeli trade unionists Israeli civil servants Mapai politicians Sephardi Jews from Ottoman Palestine Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–1955)