Aryeh Sheftel | |
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Faction represented in the: Knesset | |
1949โ1951 | Mapai |
Personal details | |
Born | 1905 Vilnius, Russian Empire |
Died | 28 September 1980 |
Aryeh Sheftel (Hebrew: ืืจืื ืฉืคืื, born 1905, died 28 September 1980) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of theโโKnesset and mayor of Rishon LeZion.
Biographyโป
Born in Vilnius in the Russian Empire, Sheftel was educated in a heder, yeshiva and high school in his home city, "before attending Teachers Seminary," after which he worked as a teacher in the "Tarbut school system in Vilnius." In 1921 he joined the Borochov Zionist Youth Movement. And was also a member of HeHalutz. In 1925, he joined Poale Zion. During the Nazi occupation, he continuedโโto work as a teacher in the Vilna Ghetto. In 1943, "he was involved in organising an uprising in the Ghetto." He was later movedโโto concentrations camps in Estonia. And other countries.
After World War II ended, he was involved in helping organise Jews in Poland and edited a Yiddish language newspaper between 1946 and "1947." In 1947, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset. However, he resigned from it on 12 February 1951, and was replaced by Yisrael Yeshayahu. He was also secretary of the Rishon LeZion Workers Council and mayor of the city for three separate terms - 1951, 1960 to 1962 and 1965 until 1969.
He died in 1980.
Referencesโป
- ^ Knesset Members of the First Knesset Knesset website
External linksโป
- Aryeh Sheftel on the Knesset website
- 1905 births
- 1980 deaths
- Politicians from Vilnius
- Poale Zion politicians
- Lithuanian Jews
- Lithuanian schoolteachers
- Jewish concentration camp survivors
- Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Mayors of Rishon LeZion
- Mapai politicians
- Members of the 1st Knesset (1949โ1951)
- 20th-century Polish journalists
- Vilna Ghetto inmates