Shimshon Unichman (, 13 February 1907 – 21 March 1961) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the
Knesset for
Herut between 1955 and 1961.
Biography
Born in
Lutsk in the
Russian Empire (today in
Ukraine), Unichman studied medicine at university in
Prague and was certified as an MD. In Prague he became involved with the
Betar
The Betar Movement ( he, תנועת בית"ר), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Chapters sprang up across Europe, even during World War II. After t ...
movement, and in 1932 he joined the national directorate of the Polish branch of the movement.
In 1935 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 ...
to
Mandatory Palestine, where he became commander of a Betar mobilisation platoon in
Rosh Pinna. He also became a member of the
Hatzohar central committee. In 1944 he was arrested by the British authorities, and sent to a detention camp in
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
. Between 1946 and 1948 he served as head of the World Secretariat of Revisionist Zionists.
After
independent in 1948 he joined
Herut, and was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
. He was re-elected in
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
and died whilst still an MK on 21 March 1961. His seat was taken by
Avraham Drori.
Knesset Members in the Fourth Knesset
Knesset website
References
External links
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1907 births
1961 deaths
People from Lutsk
20th-century Israeli Jews
Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959)
Members of the 4th Knesset (1959–1961)
Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Betar members
Hatzohar politicians
Herut politicians
Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Soviet expatriates in Czechoslovakia