Ze'ev Tzur
Ze'ev Tzur | |
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Born | 11 September 1911 Krynki, Russian Empire |
Died | 28 September 1994 | (aged 83)
Ze'ev Tzur (Hebrew: זאב צור, born Ze'ev Stein; 11 September 1911 – 28 September 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1955 and 1959, and again from 1965 until 1969.
Biography
Tzur was born on 11 September 1911 in
Hrodna, before attending a polytechnic in Vilnius, and was a member of the youth movement of the Polish Social Zionists and Dror. In 1931 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. Between 1933 and 1934 he was a member of the Rishon LeZion Workers Council, and in 1944 became a member of HaMerkaz HaHakla'i
.
A member of the B faction of
Minister of Agriculture.[1]
He lost his seat in the
Alignment list (an alliance of Ahdut HaAvoda and Mapai) in 1965, and in 1968 became a member of the central committee of the newly formed Labor Party. He lost his seat again in the 1969 elections
, and later served as a director of the Tabenkin Centre.
He died in 1994 at the age of 83.
References
- ^ All Ministers in the Ministry of Agriculture Knesset website
External links
- Ze'ev Tzur on the Knesset website