Chaim Mosque Shapira

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Chaim Moshe Shapira ( Hebrew חיים משה שפירא; * March 26, 1902 in Grodno , Russian Empire ; † July 16, 1970 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence .

Life

Political career

Shapira has been Israeli minister repeatedly. From 1948 to 1951 he was both Minister of Health and Minister of Immigration. From 1949 to 1952 he was Minister of the Interior, from 1951 to 1958 he was Minister of Religions, from 1952 to 1958 he was Minister of Welfare. In 1955 and from 1959 to 1970 he was again Minister of the Interior. From 1961 to 1966 he was Minister of Health.

After completed in June 1956 establishment of the National Religious Party ( Mafdal ), fusion of the bourgeois-centrist and Zionist-orthodox party Intellectual Center ( HaMisrachi ) and the Zionist-Orthodox Workers' Party ( Hapoel HaMizrachi ) , he became the first chairman of the new Political party. He held this office until his death in 1970. His successor was Josef Burg .

Web links

Commons : Chaim-Mosche Schapira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Chaim Mosque Shapira. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed February 1, 2014 .
  • David Tidhar : Chaim Moshe Schapira . In: Entsiklopedyah le-halutse ha-yishuv u-vonav . Volume 4, 1950, pp. 1919 ( HTML [accessed February 1, 2014] Hebrew: Hebrew משה שפירא.).

Individual evidence

  1. John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism . 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 949.
  2. Susan Hattis Rolef: National Religious Party (NRP) . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . January 2007 ( HTML [accessed February 2, 2014] accessible from HighBeam Research's newspaper / magazine archive ). HTML ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com