Yosef Serlin

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Yosef Serlin
יוסף סרלין
Liberal Party
1965–1974Gahal
Personal details
Born24 January 1906
Białystok, Russian Empire
Died15 January 1974(1974-01-15) (aged 67)

Yosef Serlin (Hebrew: יוסף סרלין; 24 February 1906 – 15 January 1974) was a Zionist activist, lawyer and Israeli politician.

Biography

Serlin was born in Białystok in the Russian Empire (now in Poland), where he attended a Hebrew High School. He studied law at the University of Warsaw and was certified as a lawyer in 1929. He was active in the Zionist Movement in Poland and was chairman of the Federation of Academic Zionists in Warsaw. He was made personal secretary to Nahum Sokolow in 1930. He was also a member of the Central Committee of Radical Zionists in Poland.

In 1933, he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and worked as a lawyer in Tel Aviv. He was one of the founders of the General Zionists and later deputy chairman of the World Confederation of General Zionists Association. He was also a member of the Zionist Actions Committee.

After the establishment of the

Liberal Party, for which he was elected to the fifth Knesset. The Liberal Party then merged into Gahal, for which he was elected to the sixth and seventh Knessets. He was a member of the House, Labor, Constitution, Law and Justice, Economic Affairs, and Finance Committees. He was also deputy Speaker of the Knesset in the 5th and 6th Knesset.[1]

In 1952, he served as

mixed election system
, according to which most MKs were to be elected from thirty voting zones.

He died in 1974, streets in Tel Aviv and Holon are named after him.

References

  1. State of Israel
    . Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  2. ^ "The Founding of the University Medical Center - Soroka" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
  3. ^ "Who Called for Military Intervention in Lebanon?" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
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