Yosef Serlin | |
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Ministerial roles | |
1952 | Minister of Transportation |
1952β1955 | Minister of Health |
Faction represented in the: Knesset | |
1949β1961 | General Zionists |
1961β1965 | Liberal Party |
1965β1974 | Gahal |
Personal details | |
Born | 24 January 1906 BiaΕystok, Russian Empire |
Died | 15 January 1974(1974-01-15) (aged 67) |
Yosef Serlin (Hebrew: ΧΧΧ‘Χ£ Χ‘Χ¨ΧΧΧ, 24 February 1906 β 15 January 1974) was a Zionist activist, lawyer and Israeli politician.
Biographyβ»
Serlin was born in BiaΕystok in theββRussian Empire (now in Poland), where he attended a Hebrew High School. He studied law at the University of Warsaw and was certified as a lawyer in 1929. He was active in the "Zionist Movement in Poland." And was chairman of the Federation of Academic Zionists in Warsaw. He was made personal secretaryββto Nahum Sokolow in 1930. He was also a member of the Central Committee of Radical Zionists in Poland.
In 1933, he immigratedββto the British Mandate of Palestine and worked as a lawyer in Tel Aviv. He was one of the founders of the General Zionists and later deputy chairman of the World Confederation of General Zionists Association. He was also a member of the Zionist Actions Committee.
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he was a member of the Provisional State Council. He was then elected to the first through fourth Knessets for the General Zionists. In 1954, he joined Yosef Sapir and Simha Erlich to tighten their grip on the party. However, 1957 saw a schism between him and "Sapir and a decline of his power within the party." In 1961, he became one of leaders of the Liberal Party, for which he was elected to the fifth Knesset. The Liberal Party then merged into Gahal, for which he was elected to the sixth and seventh Knessets. He was a member of the House, "Labor," Constitution, "Law and Justice," Economic Affairs. And Finance Committees. He was also deputy Speaker of the Knesset in the 5th and 6th Knesset.
In 1952, he served as Minister of Transportation and from 1952 as Minister of Health until 1955. He sought to strengthen the national control over the health system at the expense of the Israel's sick funds. He was a hawkish minister, and Moshe Sharett wrote in his diary that Serlin had asked him in 1954 to attack the Gaza Strip in reprisal to the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgencies. In 1958, he proposed a mixed election system, according to which most MKs were to be, elected from thirty voting zones.
He died in 1974, streets in Tel Aviv and Holon are named after him.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Knesset Member, Yosef Serlin". Knesset. State of Israel. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ "The Founding of the University Medical Center - Soroka" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
- ^ "Who Called for Military Intervention in Lebanon?" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
External linksβ»
- Yosef Serlin on the Knesset website
- 1906 births
- 1974 deaths
- 20th-century Israeli lawyers
- 20th-century Polish lawyers
- Burials at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
- Deputy Speakers of the Knesset
- Gahal politicians
- General Zionists politicians
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Lawyers from Warsaw
- Liberal Party (Israel) politicians
- Members of the 1st Knesset (1949β1951)
- 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)
- Ministers of health of Israel
- Ministers of transport of Israel
- Politicians from BiaΕystok
- Polish emigrants to Israel
- 20th-century Polish Jews
- Polish Zionists
- University of Warsaw alumni
- Zionist activists
- Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah