Avraham Verdiger

Avraham Verdiger ( Hebrew אברהם ורדיגר;; * May 6, 1921 in Łódź , Poland ; † November 27, 2013 ) was an Israeli politician from Poland who , with interruptions, was a member of the Knesset for a total of 22 years and, for a short time, was Deputy Minister for Jerusalem Affairs .

Life

Verdiger attended a Talmudic college ( Yeshiva ) in Poland before he immigrated ( Aliyah ) to Palestine in 1947 , where he studied political science and completed his military service in the armed forces .

On December 21, 1967 he was appointed to the Poalei Agudat Jisra'el (פועלי אגודת ישראל) was a member of the Knesset for the first time and was a member of this until the end of the eighth legislative period on June 13, 1977, most recently in the electoral alliance with the Religious Torah Front (חזית דתית תורתית) belonged to. During this time he was intermittently a member of the Knesset committees for public services, for work, for education and culture as well as for home affairs and the environment. He also acted temporarily as a member of the special committee for the investigation of the primary and secondary education system as well as the special committee for the draft law for the state controller (ombudsman).

In the Knesset elections of August 13, 1984, Verdiger was re-elected to the Knesset as a candidate for the Morasha (מורשה), who then formed an alliance with the Poalei Agudat Jisra'el, and belonged to it until he resigned on June 17 1996, most recently as a member of Agudat Jisra'el (מפלגת ״אגודת ישראל״)and Degel haTora (דגל התורה) formed alliance United Torah Judaism (יהדות התורה המאוחדת). During this time he was a member of numerous Knesset committees and was a member of the committees for labor and welfare, for home affairs and the environment, for rules of procedure, for finances, for the constitution, law and justice, for interpretation and for immigration and Integration as well as against substance abuse. He was also a temporary member of the United Committee against the Increased Use of Addictive Substances, the Special Committee on the Draft Law for Local Government, the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into Road Accidents, the United Committee on the Knesset Budget and the Special Committee on the Amendment of the Legal Status of Galilee .

After the Knesset election of November 1, 1988, Verdiger was chairman of the Knesset Committee on Ethics, before Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir appointed him to the 24th Government of Israel as Vice Minister for Affairs of Jerusalem on November 27, 1990 . In this function he was the representative of Prime Minister Shamir , who had taken over this ministerial office himself, until July 13, 1992 .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Knesset