Dr Dov Bar-Nir ( he, דב בר-ניר, 3 December 1911 – 7 May 2000) was a

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-born

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i 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

Mapam Mapam ( he, מַפָּ״ם, an acronym for , ) was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party. History Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the kibbutz-based Hashomer Hatz ...

between 1949 and 1951.

Biography

Born Bernard Silberschatz in

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, Bar-Nir studied social science at the

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, where he was awarded a PhD. He was amongst the founders of the

Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair ( he, הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, , ''The Young Guard'') is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group ...

movement in Belgium. He 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 ...

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

in 1932, and joined kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, where he lived until 1956. He was a member of the Socialist League party, which later merged with the

HaKibbutz HaArtzi The Kibbutz Movement ( he, התנועה הקיבוצית, ''HaTnu'a HaKibbutzit'') is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi and is made ...

movement to form the

Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party The Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine ( he, מִפְלֶגֶת פּוֹעָלִים הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל ''Mifleget Poalim Hashomer Hatzair be'Eretz Yisrael'') was a Marxism, Marxist- ...

, which he served as secretary of from its foundation in 1946 until its merger into

in 1948. In the 1949 elections he won a seat on Mapam's list. In 1950, he was sent to the

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to work as an emissary of Hashomer Hatzair. He subsequently resigned from the Knesset and was replaced by

Menachem Ratzon Menachem Ratzon (, 5 August 1919 – 12 November 1987) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the first Knesset for Mapam. Biography Born in Petah Tikva shortly after the end of World War I, Ratzon worked in orchards, industry and a ...

on 10 April 1951.Knesset Members of the First Knesset
Knesset website Between 1951 and 1953, he served as secretary of Mapam's central committee and, from 1957 until 1960, as secretary of the World Union of Mapam. After retiring from the Knesset, he published several books, including ''Trends in Modern Art'' (1954), ''From Jabotinsky to Begin: Portrait of a Movement'' (1982), ''Politicide: An Israel Socialist Answers a Foreign Socialist'' (1982), ''The Confrontation: Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky'' (1987) and ''Opinions Make Their Way''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bar-Nir, Dov 1911 births 2000 deaths Belgian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Belgian Jews Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli people of Belgian-Jewish descent Jews from Mandatory Palestine Jewish socialists Hashomer Hatzair members Mapam politicians Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951) Politicians from Brussels University of Strasbourg alumni 20th-century Belgian non-fiction writers 20th-century Israeli non-fiction writers Sokolov Award recipients Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah