Yisrael Barsilai

Yisrael Barsilai, 1955.

Yisrael Barsilai ( Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל בַרְזִילֲי, as Jolek Eisenberg in Hebrew יוֹלֶק אַיְזֶנְבֶּרְגְ; * October 1, 1913 in Nieszawa , Weichselland , Russian Empire ; † June 12, 1970 in Israel ) was an Israeli politician who served as Israeli minister in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s .

Life

Synagogue in Włocławek .

Merkas Refu'i Barsilai ( Hebrew מֶרְכָּז רְפוּאִי ברזילי).

Yisrael Barsilai attended the cheder in a Jewish high school in Włocławek ( Hebrew וְלוֹצְלָאוֶוק) and was a member of the synagogue community in Włocławek. Since the age of 11 he was also a member of the Hashomer Hatzair . In 1932 he moved to Paris to study before moving to Palestine in 1934 , where he became a member of the Hechalutz . In 1938 he was elected head of the kibbutz movement's independent settlement department . In 1939 he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Negba .

In 1947 he became secretary of the World Union of Mapam . From 1948 to 1951 he worked as the Israeli ambassador to Poland. When he returned to Israel, he was political secretary of the Mapam from 1953 to 1955. He was on the electoral list of Mapam and came as a member of the Mapam in 1955 in the Knesset, where he was appointed health minister in David Ben-Gurion's governing coalition on November 3, 1955 .

On November 24, 1958, he was appointed communications minister after the National Religious Party withdrew from the government coalition and Josef Burg resigned from office as a member of the NRP. Yisrael Barsilai retained the post as communications minister until December 17, 1959. After the elections in 1959 he was reappointed Minister of Health, which he held until November 2, 1961

Although he was re-elected in 1961, Mapam was expelled from the government and Barsilai lost his office in the cabinet. After the 1966 elections, he lost his seat but was again appointed as a non-party member of the Levi Eshkol government on January 12, 1966, as Minister of Health, where he retained this post until December 15, 1969.

He was not re-elected after the 1969 elections, but was nevertheless appointed Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet and held that post until June 1970.

After his death, the Ashkelon hospital (the cornerstone of which he laid in 1961) was named after him Merkas Refu'i Barsilai ( Hebrew מֶרְכָּז רְפוּאִי בַרְזִילֲי).

Web links

• Yisrael Barsilai. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed March 26, 2014 . 
• Report on Yisrael Barsilai on nrg.co.il (Hebrew)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Israel Barzilai: Public Activities Knesset website