Ze'ev Sherf (; 21 April 1904 – 18 April 1984) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Born in Czernowitz in

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(today

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, Ukraine), Sherf

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in 1925. He was a member of

Poale Zion Poale Zion (, also romanized ''Poalei Tziyon'' or ''Poaley Syjon'', meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire at about the turn of the 20th c ...

's youth movement, and was a founder of the "Socialist Youth" movement. During World War II he was a member of the

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command, and following the war worked for the

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for two years. In 1947 he was appointed secretary of the Situation Committee, which helped create the administrative apparatus of the new state. Following

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, he served as secretary of the government until 1957. In the 1965 elections he was voted into the

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on the

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list. In November 1966 he was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry, and in August 1968 also became

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. He held both posts until after the 1969 elections, when he became Minister of Housing. He was not re-elected in the 1973 elections and lost his place in the cabinet the following year when

Golda Meir Golda Meir (; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government. Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) ...

resigned as Prime Minister.

Books

*''Law and Administration in the State'', 1953 *''Three Days'', 1959

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sherf, Zeev 1984 deaths 1904 births Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Bukovina Jews Haganah members Alignment (Israel) politicians Ministers of finance of Israel Ministers of housing of Israel Members of the 6th Knesset (1965–1969) Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974) Immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah Burials at Har HaMenuchot Israeli Labor Party politicians