Yohanan Bader

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Yohanan Bader
Faction represented in the Knesset
1949–1965Herut
1965–1974Gahal
1974–1977Likud
Personal details
Born19 August 1901
Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Died16 June 1994(1994-06-16) (aged 92)
Ramat Gan

Yohanan Bader, Jan Bader (Hebrew: יוחנן בדר, 19 August 1901 – 16 June 1994) was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician.

Biography

Yochanan Bader was born as Jan Bader

HaShomer Hatzair" but in 1925 he joined the Revisionist Zionist Movement. He studied law, economics, philosophy and history at Jagiellonian University, where he earned his Doctor of Law degree and was certified as a lawyer.[2] He also edited the Polish language
weekly Trybuna Narodowa.

He was one of the leaders of Nowa Organizacja Syjonistyczna (

New Zionist Organization). Other leaders were Yosef Shofman and Ya'acov Cohen.[3]

In September 1939, Bader moved to East Poland, then under Soviet rule; he was arrested and sentenced to hard labor in northern Russia in 1940. In 1941, he was released under the terms of the Soviet-Polish Agreement and left the Soviet Union; in August 1942 he joined the Free Polish Army. In December 1943, he immigrated to Palestine and joined the Irgun. In 1945, he was arrested by the British authorities and imprisoned in the Latrun Camp until May 1948.

Political career

Bader was one of the founders and ideologists of the Herut Movement in 1948 and editor of the newspaper Herut.[4]

Grave of Bader and his wife

He was member of the

Alignment).[5][6]

Bader retired before the 1977 elections (which Likud won). He died in 1994 in Ramat Gan.[7]

Published works

  • The Knesset and Me (1979) (in Hebrew)

See also

  • Newspapers of Israel

References

  1. ^ tytuł = Trybuna Narodowa. Tygodnik, Organ rewizjonizmu syjonistycznego
  2. ^ "Glossary of Israeli Parties and Personalities – 1948–1981". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
  3. ^ Revisionist Zionists
  4. ^ Calderon, Nissim (7 August 2007). "Making an impression". Haaretz. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
  5. ^ "The Knesset in the Government System". Retrieved 28 December 2007.
  6. ^ The Distribution of Knesset Seats Among the Lists – the Bader-Offer Method
  7. ^ Yohanan Bader

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