Eliezer Shostak
Eliezer Shostak | |
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Minister of Health | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1951–1965 | Herut |
| 1965–1967 | Gahal |
| 1967–1974 | Free Centre |
| 1974–1988 | Likud |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 December 1911 Volodymyrets, Russian Empire |
| Died | 20 August 2001 (aged 89) |
Eliezer Shostak (
Minister of Health from 1977 until 1984 and as a member of the Knesset
from 1951 until 1988.
Biography
Eliezer Shostak as born in Volodymyrets in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine). He joined the Betar movement in 1930 and made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935, joining the Betar work battalion in Herzliya.
Political career
In 1936, Shostak was elected secretary of the National Workers Labour Federation. He became a member of the central committee of
1949 elections,[1]
but the party failed to win a seat.
Shostak later joined
Liberal Party to form Likud
, for whom he was elected to the Knesset in the elections that year. In 1975, the Free Centre split and Shostak became chairman of the Independent Centre faction.
He was re-elected again in 1977 and was appointed Minister of Health in Begin's government. He retained the role following the 1981 elections, but was left out of the cabinet after the 1984 elections, instead becoming Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. He lost his seat in 1988, having served in the Knesset for just over 37 years.
References
- ^ Brit Hatzohar list Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Israel Democracy Institute
External links
- Eliezer Shostak on the Knesset website
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