Haviv Shimoni ( he, חביב שמעוני, born 13 January 1933, died 13 July 1994) 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 the

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between 1974 and 1977.

Biography

Born in

Dohuk Duhok ( ku, دهۆک, translit=Dihok; ar, دهوك, Dahūk; syr, ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ, Beth Nohadra) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It's the capital city of Duhok Governorate. History The city's origin dates back to the Ston ...

in northern

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

, Shimoni 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 1936. He later became the general secretary for the National Association of Kurdish Jews in Israel. He studied political science and Middle Eastern studies at 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 ...

, gaining a BA, and also received a certificate in Public Administration.Haviv Shimoni: Particulars
Knesset website In 1951 he joined

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 ...

, becoming a member of the central institutions of its

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

branch. From 1965 until 1969 he was a member of Jerusalem Workers Council, and from 1969 to 1973, and again from 1978 until 1984, a member of the city council. Between 1964 and 1973 he worked for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, heading the workers committee in the ministry. He was responsible for product design, and chaired the directorate of the Israeli Centre for Product Design from 1973 until 1979, having been a member of the board of the Packaging Institute between 1964 and 1973. He was on the Alignment list (an alliance of the Labor Party (which Mapai had merged into in 1968) and

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 ...

) for the 1973 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 14 February the following year as a replacement for the deceased

Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi (, he, עבד אל-עזיז א-זועבי; 4 February 1926 – 14 February 1974) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapam and the Alignment from 1965 until his death in 1974. When appoint ...

.Knesset Members in the Eighth Knesset
Knesset website He lost his seat in the 1977 elections. Shimoni died in 1994 at the age of 61.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shimoni, Haviv 1933 births 1994 deaths People from Duhok Kurdish Jews Iraqi emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Kurdish-Jewish descent Jews in Mandatory Palestine Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Social Sciences alumni Israeli civil servants Mapai politicians Israeli Labor Party politicians Alignment (Israel) politicians Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977)