Naftali Feder (, 4 January 1920 – 11 November 2009) was an Israeli politician who was a member of the Knesset for the

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between 1977 and 1984.

Biography

Feder was born in Olkusz in Poland.Naftali Feder: Public Activities
Knesset When the country was invaded by Nazi Germany, he fled to the Russian-occupied area and joined the Red Army. His family remained in the area and were subsequently killed in

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. He fought in the Battle of Kiev, but was injured and later released from the army. After the war he returned to Poland, moving to Lodz, where he became a member 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 ...

leadership and edited its journal named ''Gesherim'' (''Bridges''), as well as running a home for children who had survived the Holocaust.Naftali Feder, former MK, political secretary of Mapam, 1920-2009
''Haaretz'', 3 September 2011 After moving to

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to run another children's home, he immigrated to Israel in 1949, where he joined the Israel Defence Forces, fighting in the Battle of Tel Motila. After working as a lorry driver in Haifa, Feder was elected secretary of Nesher Workers Council. He moved to Beersheba in 1957 to become the city council's treasurer under mayor

David Tuviyahu David Tuviyahu (; 1898–1975) was an Israeli politician and trade unionist who served as the first mayor of the city of Beersheba after the establishment of the State of Israel. Biography Tuviyahu was born in 1898 in Galicia, then part of the ...

. From 1963 to 1965 he worked in Brazil as a Jewish Agency emissary, before working as

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 ...

's secretary from 1968 until 1976. In

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list (an alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam). He was re-elected in

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, but lost his seat in the

1984 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1984. Africa * 1984 Beninese parliamentary election * 1984 Botswana general election * 1984 Burundian presidential election * 1984 Cameroonian presidential election * 1984 Comorian presidential electi ...

. In 1984 he served as deputy speaker of the Knesset. Feder also worked as a

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director with responsibility for child refugees. He died in 2009 at the age of 89.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feder, Naftali 1920 births 2009 deaths 20th-century Israeli civil servants Alignment (Israel) politicians Deputy Speakers of the Knesset Hashomer Hatzair members Israeli officials of the United Nations Jewish Israeli politicians Mapam politicians Members of the 9th Knesset (1977–1981) Members of the 10th Knesset (1981–1984) People from Olkusz Polish emigrants to Israel 20th-century Polish Jews Soviet military personnel of World War II