Yitzhak-Meir Levin

Yitzhak-Meir Levin 1951

Yitzhak-Meir Levin ( Hebrew יצחק-מאיר לוין; born January 30, 1893 in Góra Kalwaria ; died August 7, 1971 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli politician , minister and Charedian rabbi .

biography

Jitzhak-Meir Levin was born on January 30, 1893 in Góra Kalwaria, a stronghold of ultra-Orthodox Judaism , as the son of Zvi Hanoch Heinich HaKohen Levin and Feigele Levin, née Alter. His training as a rabbi took place at a Talmud college . He was married to Dwora-Matel Lewin ( Hebrew מאטיל לוין אלתר) (born February 1, 1891, died July 22, 1981), daughter of Avraham Mordechai Alter , the third Gerrer Rebbe . They had nine children together. In 1940, the family of Jitzhak-Meir Levin left Poland as part of the Aliyah for the League of Nations mandate area of ​​Palestine .

After his death on August 7, 1971 in Jerusalem, he was buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives .

Political career

Jitzhak-Meir Levin was involved in founding Agudath Israel in Poland, partly through the influence of his father-in-law. Due to the large number of visitors, the organization was able to draw up its own list at the elections for the city parliament of Warsaw in 1924. Yitzhak-Meir Levin moved into the city parliament after the elections. In 1917 he helped found the Bais Yaakov school system. In these schools girls and young women from religious families were able to acquire their education , as was previously only possible for boys at the cheder . He was elected to the Presidium of the Agudath Israel World Organization in 1929. Eight years later he became one of the two co-chairs of the Agudath Israel World Organization. After the parliamentary elections in Poland in 1938 , Jitzhak-Meir Levin was able to enter the Sejm . In the course of the dissolution of the Second Polish Republic after the outbreak of World War II , he lost his seat in the Sejm. In the following years he supported refugees in Warsaw.

Upon his arrival in the League of Nations mandate area of ​​Palestine, he became the leading head of Agudat Jisra'el .

When the Provisional Government of Israel was constituted on April 12, 1948, he became Minister of Welfare . On May 14, 1948, he was one of 37 signatories of Israel's Declaration of Independence . In the parliamentary elections following the Declaration of Independence on January 25, 1949 , he was elected to the First Knesset as a member of the United Religious Front . In the coalition government headed by David Ben-Gurion , he became Minister of Welfare. After the dissolution of the government on October 15, 1950 and the failed formation of a new government without the United Religious Front, a new government was formed on November 1, 1950 with the same coalition partners. Again Jitzhak-Meir Levin took over the Ministry of Welfare. This government lasted until February 14, 1951. In the following parliamentary elections on July 30, 1951 , Jitzhak-Meir Levin was re-elected to the Second Knesset and again welfare minister when the government was formed. In this government, Yitzhak-Meir Levin remained until the ruling coalition broke on December 19, 1952. Until his death in 1971, he was not involved in any other government, but was elected to the Third , Fourth , Fifth , Sixth and Seventh Knesset .

In 1949 he founded the daily HaModia ( Hebrew הַמּוֹדִיע), which acts as a mouthpiece for the Agudat Jisra'el.

Web links

Commons : Jitzhak-Meir Levin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yitzhak-Meir Levin. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed January 19, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ House of intrigue, 1947-8 . In: The Jerusalem Post . January 24, 2002 ( HTML [accessed January 21, 2014] accessed 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.  
2. ^ Gil Hoffman: Sharon aims for widest coalition . In: The Jerusalem Post . July 15, 2004 ( HTML [accessed January 21, 2014]). 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.  
3. ↑ Ha-Modi'a . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . January 1, 2007 ( HTML [accessed January 22, 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.