Giora Yoseftal
Giora Yoseftal | |
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Minister of Housing | |
1961–1962 | Minister of Development |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1959–1962 | Mapai |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 August 1912 Nuremberg, Germany |
Died | 23 August 1962 | (aged 50)
Dr Giora Yoseftal (Hebrew: גיורא יוספטל; 9 August 1912 – 23 August 1962) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Biography
Born Georg Josephthal in
, gaining a PhD in jurisprudence at the latter.In 1932, he joined Habonim, and the following year was appointed head of the youth department of the Bavarian Jewish community. He moved to Berlin in 1934, and two years later was elected secretary general of the German branch of HeHalutz. In 1936 he married Senetta Yoseftal, later also an Israeli politician.
Yoseftal made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1938, and two months after arriving, he was sent to London to try to save German Jewry. He returned to Palestine in 1939, establishing a work brigade in Ra'anana, which later founded kibbutz Gal'ed in 1945.
In 1943, he joined the British Army. After the war ended, he took over the absorption section of the Jewish Agency's aliyah department. Between 1947 and 1952 he sat on the Agency's board. In 1952 he was a member of the delegations which negotiated the Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1956, he became secretary-general of
In March 2018, the city of Netanya decided to change the name of a street named after Yoseftal because of his discriminatory policies towards North African immigrants in the 1950s.[1]
The Yoseftal Medical Center in Eilat is named for him; he was instrumental in its construction and location but did not live to see it opened.
References
- ^ סערת "סלאח פה זה ארץ ישראל": שמו של הרחוב ע"ש יוספטל בנתניה ישונה Maariv, 6 March 2018
External links
- Giora Yoseftal on the Knesset website
- The personal papers of Giora Yoseftal are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is A344.
- Berlin, Ludwig (2013). "Biography of Giora (Georg) Josephthal" (PDF). Nuremberg: Rijo Research. Retrieved 24 April 2017.