Jisra'el Bar Yehuda

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Jisra'el Bar Jehuda ( Hebrew ישראל בר-יהודה; * November 15, 1895 as Israel Idelson in Konotop , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire (now Sumy Oblast , Ukraine ); † May 4, 1965 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli politician of the left-wing Zionist parties Mapam and Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion . He was interior minister from 1955 to 1959 and transport minister from 1962 to 1965 and a key figure in the powerful trade union confederation Histadrut , which was one of the most important authorities on cultural issues.

Life

Idelson grew up in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro ) in what is now Ukraine, where he attended the Mining Institute. He got involved with the socialist Zionists , whose Russian Central Committee he was a member from 1917, and married Beba Trachtenberg . After the October Revolution , Zionist activity was illegal in Soviet Russia and the couple were exiled to Siberia in 1922, the same year their daughter Rivka was born. After two years they were pardoned but had to leave the Soviet Union. They first went to Berlin, where Israel Idelson acted as secretary of the World Union of Socialist Zionists.

In 1926 they moved to the then Mandate Palestine . There he took the name Bar Jehuda while his wife kept the name Idelson. He became secretary of the Petach Tikwa Workers' Council , and in 1930 he moved to kibbutz Jagur . He later became secretary of the left-wing kibbutz movement Kibbutz HaMeuchad . As a representative of the socialist-Zionist Mapai party , he was elected to the assembly of representatives of the Jewish residents of Palestine. He belonged to the so-called “Bet” group in the Mapai, which split off as its own party Achdut haAwoda (“Unity of Work”) in 1944 , before being absorbed in 1948 in the left-wing socialist Mapam .

He was a member of the Knesset from its founding in 1949 to 1965. In the first legislative term he was chairman of the committee for the transitional constitution. With Jitzchak Tabenkin , Jigal Allon and others he left the Mapam in 1954 and founded Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion . In the Cabinets of Ben Gurion V and VI , Bar Jehuda was Minister of the Interior. After his party colleague Jitzchak Ben Aharon resigned as Minister of Transport in May 1962, Bar Jehuda took over his office and held it until May 1965.

Cultural political influence

In his role as Minister of the Interior, Bar Jehuda was also subject to film censorship. In his double function as Minister of the Interior and an influential Histadrut member, he contributed to the fact that the French documentary about the Holocaust Nuit et Brouillard could not be shown in Israel.

Honors

The Bar Yehuda Airfield , an airport in the Judean Desert , between Arad and Ein Gedi , in the west of the Dead Sea , was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vitaly Charny, Josif Charny (trans.): Russian Jewish Encyclopedia . In: JewishGen . Retrieved February 9, 2008.
  2. ↑ Bat Sheva-Margalit Stern: Beba Idelson (Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine 1895 - Israel 1975) . In: The Israeli Labor movement . Retrieved February 16, 2008.
  3. ↑ Nitzan Lebovic: An absence that leaves traces , in: Ewout van der Knaap (Ed.): "Night and Fog": Memory of the Holocaust and international impact history , Wallstein Verlag, 2008, pp. 141–162. ISBN 978-3-8353-0359-1 .

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SURNAME Bar Jehuda, Jisra'el
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Idelson, Yisrael (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician, minister and Knesset MP
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Konotop
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1965
Place of death Jerusalem