Moshe Erem | |
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 Erem in 1955 | |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 1949–1954 | Mapam |
| 1954–1959 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
| 1965 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969 | Alignment |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 August 1896 |
| Died | 14 October 1978(1978-10-14) (aged 82) |
Moshe Erem (Hebrew:משה ארם; 7 August 1896 – 14 October 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of theKnesset for several left-wing parties and factions from 1949 until 1959, and again from 1965 until 1969.
Born Moshe Kazanovski inLyady in theMogilev Governorate of theRussian Empire (now inBelarus), Erem worked as a high school headteacher inKaunas. Heemigrated toMandatory Palestine in 1924, and worked in building and road construction. He joinedPoale Zion movement, later becoming one of its leading figures. In the same year that he immigrated he became a member of theTel Aviv–Jaffa workers council that year, serving on it until 1935. In 1926, he was elected onto Tel Aviv's city council.
In 1935, he was sent to theUnited States as a Poale Zion emissary, working there for two years. In 1937, he was invited to Spain (during thecivil war) by the republican government. He also served on the Zionist Executive Committee and theHistadrut's executive committee, and worked in the Organisation department of theJewish Agency in the 1940s.
In the1949 elections he was voted into the Knesset on theMapam list. He retained his seat in the1951 elections, but on 23 August 1954, left the party alongsideIsrael Bar-Yehuda,Yitzhak Ben-Aharon andAharon Zisling to re-establishAhdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion as an independent party.[1] He was re-elected on the new party's list in the1955 elections, but lost his seat in1959. He failed to win a seat in the1961 elections, but entered the Knesset on 4 May 1965 as a replacement for the deceased Bar-Yehuda.[2] He retained his seat in theNovember 1965 elections, by which time Ahdut HaAvoda had entered an alliance withMapai, known as theAlignment. Following a formal merger of the two (with the addition ofRafi), in 1968 this became theLabor Party, and, following the addition of Mapam to the alliance, was again renamed theAlignment in 1969. Erem lost his seat in theelections that year. He died in 1978.
A street in northTel Aviv is named after him
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