Binyamin Sasson ( he, בנימין ששון, born Saleh Silas; 1903 – 1 May 1989) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1951 to 1955.

Biography

Born in Baghdad during the Ottoman era, Sasson made

aliyah Aliyah (, ; he, עֲלִיָּה ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the Israel, State of Israel ...

to Mandatory Palestine in 1937. He became one of the leaders of Sephardic Jews in Palestine, served as deputy chairman of the Committee of Sephardi Jewry, was a member of the board of the World Federation of Sephardi Communities and was president of the Iraqi community in Tel Aviv. He was also amongst the founders of the Israeli Rotary, and was president of the Tel Aviv branch between 1945 and 1946. A municipal judge, he was elected to the Knesset in

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

on the Sephardim and Oriental Communities list. Six weeks after the elections the party merged into the

General Zionists The General Zionists ( he, הַצִיּוֹנִים הַכְּלָלִיים, translit. ''HaTzionim HaKlaliym'') were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. The General Zionists supported the leadership of Chaim Weizmann an ...

. Sasson lost his seat in the 1955 elections. He died in 1989.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sasson, Binyamin 1903 births 1989 deaths Politicians from Baghdad Iraqi Jews Iraqi emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine 20th-century Israeli judges Sephardim and Oriental Communities politicians General Zionists politicians Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–1955)