Elazar Granot ( he, אלעזר גרנות, 12 March 1927 – 19 September 2013) was an Israeli politician and a

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Biography

Born in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

during the

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 ...

, Granot was educated at

Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School ( he, בית הספר התיכון החקלאי פרדס חנה) established in 1935 by the Palestine Farmers Association, is one of the oldest Agricultural education, agricultural high schools in Israel. It wa ...

, before moving onto the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

where he studied philosophy, sociology, literature, Hebrew and Bible. During

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he volunteered for the

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, in which he served between 1944 and 1946. He also fought in the

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. In 1951 he became a member of kibbutz Sasa, where he lived until 1958 when he moved to kibbutz

Shoval Shoval ( he, שׁוֹבָל) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the northern Negev desert near the Bedouin city of Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The kibbut ...

. Between 1962 and 1964 he served as director of the Young Leadership of

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 ...

, becoming the party's organisational secretary in 1975, and political secretary in 1979. In 1981 he was

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to the Knesset on the Alignment's list (Mapam was a faction within the Alignment at the time). He was re-elected in 1984, and was a member of the

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee ( he, ועדת חוץ וביטחון) is a permanent Knesset committee which oversees key Foreign and Defense issues of the State of Israel, including the drafting of legislation, supervision over relat ...

. Although he became Mapam's secretary general in 1985, Granot lost his seat in the 1988 elections. He died in 2013 in kibbutz

. In 2016 he was accused of being a KGB agent for the

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in the Mitrokhin Archive.

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* 1927 births 2013 deaths Jews in Mandatory Palestine People from Jerusalem Kibbutzniks People from Shoval Alignment (Israel) politicians Mapam politicians Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Members of the 10th Knesset (1981–1984) Members of the 11th Knesset (1984–1988) Mandatory Palestine military personnel of World War II Jewish Brigade personnel {{Israel-bio-stub