Jigal Hurwitz
Jigal Hurwitz , also Iga'el Hurvitz ( Hebrew יִגָּאֵל הוּרְבִיץ Jigga'el Hūrvīz ; * 1918 in Nachalat Jehudah ; † January 10, 1994 ), was an Israeli politician and multiple minister .
biography
After graduating from high school , he was a member of the secretariat of the "Association of Working and Studying Youth" ( Histadrut ha-No'ar ha-Owed we-ha-Lomed ) from 1938 to 1941 . During the Second World War he was a member of the Jewish Brigade and co-founder of the underground movement "Am Lohem" and in 1946 one of the founders of "Tnuʿat Haʿam".
After the establishment of the State of Israel , he was Executive Director of the Yariv Cooperative and Director of the United Dairy Cooperative "Tena Noga". From 1961 to 1965 he was not only a member of the secretariat of the Moshav Cooperative Association , but also its director in southern Israel. In 1961 he also joined the Mapai of David Ben Gurion and became a member of the Central Committee elected the party. In 1965, however, he first switched to the Rafi party (Reschimat Poʿalei Jisrael), which was newly founded by Ben Gurion , before he founded the National List together with Ben Gurion in 1969 .
In 1973 he was one of the founders of the Likud party alliance alongside Menachem Begin , but by 1976 he was one of the co-founders of the LeʿAm party. In 1981 he joined the movement of state renewal "Telem" (Tnuʿa LeHitchadschut Mamlachtit) before reestablishing Rafi in 1983 with Ometz and finally rejoining Likud in 1987.
Hurwitz was a member of the Knesset from November 17, 1969 to July 20, 1981 , where he represented the above-mentioned parties. After a short break, he was a member of the Knesset again from October 16, 1981 to July 13, 1992. During this time he was from January 1974 to June 1977, among other things, chairman of the economic committee.
Subsequently, on June 20, 1977, Prime Minister Begin appointed him Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism. He held this office until his resignation on October 1, 1978 in protest against Camp David and was then Minister of Finance from November 7, 1979 to January 13, 1981 as Simcha Ehrlich's successor . He resigned because he could not get his way with his financial and budgetary policies. He then belonged to the cabinets of Shimon Peres and Jitzchak Shamir from September 13, 1984 to December 22, 1988 as a minister without a portfolio , but as such also represented opinions that differed from the government.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Colin Shindler: The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream . IBTauris, London 2002, ISBN 1-86064-774-X , pp. 103 f . (English, 324 p., limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ "'Yigal the Printer'", TIME MAGAZINE January 19, 1981
- ^ "Israel's Teachers Strike," NEW YORK TIMES February 19, 1981
- ↑ "Almost Mission Impossible", TIME-MAGAZINE April 12, 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hurwitz, Jigal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hurvitz, Igeal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nachalat-Yehua , Israel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1994 |