Yosef Efrati ( he, יוסף אפרתי, born 19 February 1897, died 8 February 1975) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1965.

Biography

Born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Efrati received his primary education in a '' heder''.Yosef Efrati: Particulars
Knesset He made ''

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'' to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1914, and studied at an agricultural high school in

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. In 1917 he joined the group that settled Be'er Tuvia.Yosef Efrati: Public Activities
Knesset Between 1923 and 1925, he worked at an agricultural research station at Ben Shemen and moved to kibbutz Geva in 1925. Efrati was a member of Hapoel Hatzair and later Mapai, as well as being one of the leaders of HaMerkaz HaHakla'i. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset on the Mapai list. In February 1951 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture, a role he held until 1955. Yosef Efrati: Government roles
Knesset He was re-elected in

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

. He was re-elected again 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 ...

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

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

, before losing his seat in the 1965 elections. He died in 1975 at the age of 77.

References

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