Yisrael Bar-Yehuda
Yisrael Bar-Yehuda | |
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Minister of Transportation | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1949–1954 | Mapam |
| 1954–1965 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 November 1895 Konotop, Russian Empire |
| Died | 4 May 1965 (aged 69) Yagur, Israel |
Yisrael Bar-Yehuda (
Zionist activist and Israeli
politician.
Biography
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Born Yisrael Idelson in
Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Sumy Oblast, Ukraine) in 1895,[1] Bar-Yehuda attended an Academic High School and the Mine Engineering Institute in Ekaterinoslav. During that time he was the mathematics tutor of the future Lubavitcher Rebbe
, when the later was 17 years old.
In 1909 joined Maxim Gorki's wife, their banishment was converted to deportation to Mandate Palestine.[2] They traveled to Lithuania and from there to Berlin by way of Danzig
. For the next two years in Berlin they were active in establishing the World Union of Socialist Zionists and became the Movement's Secretary.
In 1926 he immigrated to Palestine. He was Secretary of the Petah Tikva Workers Council and organized sentries to protect Jewish workers. He also did roadwork on the Tel Aviv-Petah Tikva road. In 1930 he joined kibbutz Yagur, and became its secretary six years later. During the 1936-39 Arab revolt he was among the first to call for "active defense".[3]
He was a delegate to the
Assembly of Representatives and a member of the Constituent Assembly. He was one of the leaders of the "B" faction in Mapai and one of the leaders of the Ahdut HaAvoda
after the split in 1944. From 1960 to 1962 he was secretary general of Ahdut HaAvoda.
He was elected to the first and second
Minister of Transportation
until his death in 1965.
The "Bar-Yehuda" neighborhood in Petach Tikva is named after him as well as
HaKerayot
intersection.
References
- ^ Charny, Vitaly. "Russian Jewish Encyclopedia". Jewish Gen. Josif Charny (trans.). Retrieved 2008-02-09.
- ^ Stern, Bat Sheva-Margalit. "Beba Idelson (Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine 1895 - Israel 1975)". The Israeli Labor movement (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2008-02-16.
- ^ "Yagur-Net" (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2008-02-11.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Yisrael Bar-Yehuda on the Knesset website
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