Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1949–1965 | Herut |
| 1965–1970 | Gahal |
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| Born | 16 December 1913 Vilnius, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 January 1970 (aged 56) Israel |
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer (Hebrew: אריה בן אליעזר, 16 December 1913 – 29 January 1970) was a Revisionist Zionist leader, Irgun member and Israeli politician.
Biography
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer (born Lipa Zabrowsky) was born in Vilnius in the Russian Empire (today in Lithuania). His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1920. He attended high schools in Tel Aviv.
Zionist activism
At the age of thirteen, he joined
Baltic countries. In 1933, he was arrested for five weeks under suspicion of being connected to Brit HaBirionim
.
After the outbreak of
Ari Jabotinsky, Shmuel Merlin and Yitzhak Ben-Ami, he founded the "Committee for the Rescue of European Jewry" and later on the "Committee for National Liberation".[1]
In 1943, he returned to Palestine on a mission for the Committee for the Rescue of European Jewry. He met with
Altalena
.
Political career
In 1948, he returned to the
Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
.
He died in 1970 while still an MK, and was replaced by Gideon Patt.
Commemoration
The
Beit Aryeh was named after him. A main street in Ramat Gan, is also named after him as well as Streets in Petah Tikva, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Netanya, Holon, and Lod
References
- ^ a b Lapidot, Yehuda. "Aryeh Ben Eliezer". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
- ^ "In African Exile". etzel.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
Further reading
- Sherman, Arnold (1986). Fire in his Soul: the Life of Aryeh Ben-Eliezer (in Hebrew). ידיעות ספרים. p. 234. ISBN 965-248-070-3.
External links
- Aryeh Ben-Eliezer on the Knesset website
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