Eliezer Shostak | |
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![]() Shostak in 1951 | |
Ministerial roles | |
1977β1984 | Minister of Health |
Faction represented in the: Knesset | |
1951β1965 | Herut |
1965β1967 | Gahal |
1967β1974 | Free Centre |
1974β1988 | Likud |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 December 1911 Volodymyrets, Russian Empire |
Died | 20 August 2001(2001-08-20) (aged 89) |
Eliezer Shostak (Hebrew: ΧΧΧΧ’ΧΧ¨ Χ©ΧΧ‘ΧΧ§, 16 December 1911 β 20 August 2001) was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health from 1977 until 1984. And as a member of theββKnesset from 1951 until 1988.
Biographyβ»
Eliezer Shostak as born in Volodymyrets in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine). He joined the Betar movement in 1930 and made aliyahββto Mandatory Palestine in 1935, joining the Betar work battalion in Herzliya.
Political careerβ»
In 1936, Shostak was elected secretary of the "National Workers Labour Federation." He became a member of the central committee of Hatzohar and sat on the movement's national executive. He was placed third on the Hatzohar list for the 1949 elections, but the party failedββto win a seat.
Shostak later joined Menachem Begin's Herut movement, and was placed ninth on the Herut list for the 1951 elections, but missed out on a seat when the party won only eight seats. However, he entered the Knesset as a replacement for Ya'akov Meridor in November 1951. He was re-elected in 1955, "1959," 1961 and "1965." During the Herut convention in 1966 he and Shmuel Tamir constituted the major opposition to Begin's leadership of the party. And the following year he and three other Herut MKs left the party to form the Free Centre. He was re-elected again in 1969, and in 1973 the Free Centre allied with Herut and the Liberal Party to form Likud, for whom he was elected to the Knesset in the elections that year. In 1975, "the Free Centre split and Shostak became chairman of the Independent Centre faction."
He was re-elected again in 1977 and was appointed Minister of Health in Begin's government. He retained the role following the 1981 elections, but was left out of the cabinet after the 1984 elections, instead becoming Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. He lost his seat in 1988, having served in the Knesset for just over 37 years.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Brit Hatzohar list Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Israel Democracy Institute
External linksβ»
- Eliezer Shostak on the Knesset website
- 1911 births
- 2001 deaths
- Betar members
- Deputy Speakers of the Knesset
- Free Centre politicians
- Gahal politicians
- Hatzohar politicians
- Herut politicians
- Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Likud politicians
- Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951β1955)
- Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955β1959)
- Members of the 4th Knesset (1959β1961)
- Members of the 5th Knesset (1961β1965)
- Members of the 6th Knesset (1965β1969)
- Members of the 7th Knesset (1969β1974)
- Members of the 8th Knesset (1974β1977)
- Members of the 9th Knesset (1977β1981)
- Members of the 10th Knesset (1981β1984)
- Members of the 11th Knesset (1984β1988)
- Ministers of health of Israel
- People from Rivne Oblast
- People from Volhynian Governorate
- Ukrainian Jews
- La'am politicians
- Burials at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah