Dov Yosef

Dov Yosef (1951)

Dov Bernard Yosef ( Hebrew דב יוסף, Born May 27, 1899 in Montreal , Canada ; † January 7, 1980 ) was an Israeli politician and minister .

biography

After schooling completed Yosef initially a degree in humanities and economics at McGill University , he with a doctorate to the doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) graduated. He also completed a law degree at Université Laval and the University of London , which he completed with admission to the bar . In his Canadian homeland he was one of the founders of the Young Judea Association and for some time its president. During the First World War he was an employee of the Canadian Jewish Legion , which organized the relocation to Israel.

In 1918 Yosef himself settled in Israel and was a successful lawyer there during the League of Nations mandate for Palestine . In 1933 he joined the Mapai and in 1936 became legal advisor to the board of the Jewish Agency and deputy director of the political department. During World War II he was the coordinator of the Jewish Agency for the mobilization of volunteers for the British Army . In 1945 he was appointed a board member of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem . However, Yosef had to give up this activity temporarily in 1946 after his arrest by British authorities. In 1948 he was a member of the position committee that prepared the establishment of an administrative apparatus after the establishment of a state, and at the same time was the military governor of Jerusalem.

After the establishment of the State of Israel, Dov Yosef was elected for the first time as a member of the Knesset on February 14, 1949 , in which he represented the interests of the Mapai until November 30, 1959.

On March 10, 1949, he was appointed to a cabinet for the first time by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion as Minister for Rationing and Supply. On June 1, 1950, he was also appointed Minister of Agriculture and held these offices until November 1, 1950. He was then Minister of Transport until October 8, 1951, when he was subsequently appointed Minister of Justice . However, Yosef only held this office until June 25, 1952. Between October 1951 and December 24, 1952 he was also Minister for Trade and Industry. Afterwards he was minister without portfolio until June 15, 1953 , before he was development minister until November 13, 1955. At the same time he also held the office of Minister of Health from June 29, 1955 to November 1955. Most recently, Dov Yosef was again Minister of Justice from November 2, 1961 to January 12, 1966, despite the fact that he had no longer had a Knesset mandate since 1959.

Publications

• British Rule in the Land of Israel , 1948
• Keeping the Faith - Blockade on Jerusalem , 1948
• The Faithful City , 1960 (autobiography)
• Dove and Sword , 1975 (autobiography)

With his autobiography The Faithful City , he caused a political scandal in 1960, because after this portrayal the city commander of Jerusalem , David Shaaltiel, gave him a misrepresentation of the situation that ultimately led to the fall of the besieged city.

Web links

• Dov Yosef. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed January 20, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Walking Tour: A tale of two valleys", JERUSALEM POST April 17, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ "Israel will be 60 years old! And all land came ... to buy food from Joseph, because the famine was rampant in all land" (DOC file; 97 kB)