Yitzhak Coren ( he, יצחק קורן, born 11 March 1911, died 22 June 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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for Mapai and the

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Biography

Born in Chişinău in the

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(now in

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), Coren studied law at university, and was certified as a lawyer. Whilst a student he was amongst the leadership of the

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n Zionists Student Association. He served as secretary of

Tze'irei Zion Tze'irei Zion ( he, צעירי ציון, "Youth of Zion", sometimes spelled as Zeire Zion) was a socialist Zionist youth movement in Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century that branched into Palestine. The movement originated at the ...

and was a member of the Zionist Federation of Bessarabia's presidium, editing their Yiddish language newspaper. On 1 May 1940 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 ...

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 ...

and became a member of the

Haganah Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...

. Between 1941 and 1943 he worked as director of the Department of Information and Organization of the

Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...

's Supply Centre, before serving as secretary of the Moshavim Movement between 1944 and 1961. In 1949 he was amongst the founders of the "From Ma'abarot to Village" settlement project In

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Coren was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai list. He retained his seat in the 1961 elections, and was appointed Deputy

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in the tenth government on 30 May 1952, serving until the government left office on 26 June the following year. He lost his seat it in

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, but returned to the Knesset on the Alignment list (an alliance of the Labor Party (formed by a merger of Mapai,

Ahdut HaAvoda Ahdut HaAvoda ( he, אַחְדוּת הַעֲבוֹדָה, lit. ''Labour Unity'') was the name used by a series of political parties. Ahdut HaAvoda in its first incarnation was led by David Ben-Gurion. It was first established during the period ...

and Rafi) 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 ...

) following the 1969 elections, but lost his seat again in

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. Between 1964 and 1979 he served as secretary of the World Union of Labor Zionists. Coren died in 1994. His daughter Ruth married politician Moshe Nissim, who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1980s and early 1990s, whilst his son Dani was briefly an MK for the Labor Party in 2006.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coren, Yitzhak 1911 births 1994 deaths Politicians from Chișinău People from Kishinyovsky Uyezd Moldovan Jews Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Mapai politicians Alignment (Israel) politicians Deputy ministers of Israel Members of the 4th Knesset (1959–1961) Members of the 5th Knesset (1961–1965) Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974) Haganah members Israeli trade unionists Moshavim movement secretaries Yiddish-language writers People from Chișinău