Binyamin Arditi ( he, בנימין ארדיטי, 1 July 1897 – 20 May 1981) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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for

Herut Herut ( he, חֵרוּת, ''Freedom'') was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism. History Herut was founded by Menachem Begin ...

and

Gahal Gahal ( he, גח"ל, an acronym for ''Gush Herut–Liberalim'' (Hebrew: ), ''lit.'' ''Freedom–Liberals Bloc'') was the main right-leaning political alliance in Israel, ranging from the centre-right to right-wing, from its founding in 1965 until ...

between 1955 and 1965.

Biography

Born in

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, Arditi attended high school in

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. In 1917 he became a member of the central committee of the Zionist Organization of Bulgaria, on which he remained until 1923. He also chaired the organisation's Sofia branch. In 1925 he established the first Bulgarian

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movement, which he chaired until 1935. In 1944 he was arrested for Zionist activities, and two years later was arrested again by the communist authorities for encouraging emigration to Palestine. Between 1947 and 1949 he served as the Revisionist Zionism representative in the Bulgarian

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.Binyamin Arditi: Public Activities
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to Israel, where he became a member of the Herut central committee. In

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he was elected to the Knesset on the party's list, and was re-elected in

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and

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, before losing his seat in the 1965 elections. Arditi also published several books; ''The Role of King Boris in the Expulsion of Bulgarian Jewry'' (1952), ''Bulgarian Jews Under the Nazis'' (1962), ''Bulgarian Jewry – the Sumla Community'' (1968) and ''Famous Bulgarian Jews'' (1971). He died in 1981 at the age of 83.

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