Ze'ev Sherf
Ze'ev Sherf | |
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Born | 21 April 1904 Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 18 April 1984 | (aged 79)
Ze'ev Sherf (Hebrew: זאב שרף, 21 April 1904 – 18 April 1984) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Born in Czernowitz in Austria-Hungary (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Sherf made aliyah in 1925. He was a member of Poale Zion's youth movement, and was a founder of the "Socialist Youth" movement.
During World War II he was a member of the Haganah command, and following the war, worked for the Jewish Agency for Israel for two years.
In 1947 he was appointed secretary of the Situation Committee, which helped create the administrative apparatus of the new state. Following
independence
, he served as secretary of the government until 1957.
In the
Minister of Housing. He was not re-elected in the 1973 elections and lost his place in the cabinet the following year when Golda Meir
resigned as Prime Minister.
Books
- Law and Administration in the State, 1953
- Three Days, 1959
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zeev Sherf.
- Ze'ev Sherf on the Knesset website