Yitzhak Artzi

Yitzhak Artzi
Yitzhak Artzi
Faction represented in the Alignment
1988	Shinui
Personal details
Born	14 November 1920; Siret, Romania
Died	17 September 2003 (aged 82)

Yitzhak Artzi (Hebrew: יצחק ארצי, 14 November 1920 – 17 September 2003)^[1] was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1984 and 1988.

Biography

Born Izo Hertzig in

Cernăuți, before attending the Jewish College in Bucharest. A leading activist in the HaNoar HaTzioni youth movement, he was amongst the leadership of the Zionist underground in Romania during World War II, helping to rescue children from transit camps, as well as organising illegal immigration to Palestine and helping in the Cyprus internment camps

.

He made aliyah to Mandate Palestine himself in 1946, and studied law and economics at Tel Aviv University, gaining certification as a lawyer. Between 1947 and 1950 he was a member of the Alonei Abba moshav. Whilst living there he had the first of his two children, Shlomo (b. 1949), a musician; his daughter, Nava (1954–2017), a writer, was born in Jaffa.^[2]^[3] He also worked as an information and public relations officer for the State Income Administration.

Having joined the

Liberal Party, he served as its secretary general until 1965, when most former Progressive Party members left to establish the Independent Liberals, which he served as secretary general of for a year. From 1966 until 1969 he headed the Youth Aliyah department of the Jewish Agency for Israel

, of which he was also a member of the board of directors.

From 1974 until 1979 Artzi was vice mayor of

1989 municipal elections

, but finished sixth with 3.5% of the vote.

He died in 2003 at the age of 82.