Zevulun Hammer

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Zevulun Hammer
Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre
1984–1998National Religious Party
Personal details
Born31 May 1936
Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Died20 January 1998(1998-01-20) (aged 61)
Jerusalem, Israel

Zevulun Hammer (

Deputy Prime Minister
.

Biography

Hammer was born in

Israeli Armored Corps in a Nahal programme. He graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a BA in Judaism and Bible, as well as a teaching certificate and worked as a teacher. At the university, he headed the Student Union and was a member of the Presidium of the Israeli Students Association and the World Union of Jewish Students
.

Political career

Hammer was first elected to the Knesset in 1969 as a member of the National Religious Party. He became Deputy Minister of Education and Culture in January 1973. In November 1975 he was appointed Minister of Welfare, but in December 1976 his party resigned from the cabinet

After the

Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre
; however, they returned to the NRP after two weeks.

In October 1986 he became

Deputy Prime Minister. In August 1997 he was also appointed Minister of Religious Affairs.[1]

Death

At age 61, Hammer was diagnosed with cancer and died in office on 20 January 1998, leaving a wife and four children. He was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery.

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