Yehonatan Yifrah (, 24 October 1929 – 19 April 2008) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the

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between 1969 and 1974.

Biography

Born in

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

in Morocco, Yifrah was a member of the Habonim youth movement, and became an instructor for the movement in Algeria. 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 Israel in 1951 and joined kibbutz Bror Hayil, before settling in Sderot in 1957.Yehonatan Yifrach: Public Activities
Knesset website Between 1957 and 1959 he was secretary of Sderot Workers Council, before serving as head of the town's local council between 1962 and 1971. In

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he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, but lost his seat in the 1973 elections. He died in 2008 at the age of 78.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yifrah, Yehonatan 1929 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Moroccan Jews Politicians from Casablanca Moroccan emigrants to Israel Mayors of local councils in Israel Alignment (Israel) politicians People from Sderot Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974)