Meir Argov

Meir Argov, member of the first Knesset.

Meir Argov (birth name: Meyer Grabovsky ; Hebrew מאיר ארגוב; * 1905 in Rybnitsa, Russian Empire (today: Rîbnița , Moldova ); † November 24, 1963 ) was an Israeli politician who was elected as a member of the first Knesset in 1949 and remained a member until his death. He was also a signatory to Israel's Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948.

Life

After attending a Jewish elementary school and high school , Argov studied at the University of Kiev . While attending school he became a member of the Central Committee of Young Zionists in 1917 and was one of the leaders of the Zionist organization Hechaluz in what is now Ukraine . Because of these activities he was arrested in 1922 during the rule of the CPSU and expelled from the Soviet Union in 1924 after further actions for Zionist organizations .

After his immigration ( Aliyah ) to the League of Nations mandate area for Palestine in 1927, he worked in agriculture and was secretary of the Petach Tikwa workers' council from 1929 to 1939 . In 1930 he became a member of the Vaad Ha'Leumi organization and in 1931 a member of the Petach Tikwa municipal council . In 1940 he volunteered in the British Army and fought in the Jewish Brigade in Italy . After the Second World War , he took part in actions to rescue Jewish refugees to Palestine.

Argov, who was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, was a member of both the Central Committee of the Labor Party ( Mapai ) and the Provisional Council of State.

After the establishment of the State of Israel, Argov became a member of the Knesset for the first time on February 14, 1949 and was a member of the Knesset as a representative of the Mapai until his death on November 24, 1963. During his parliamentary membership, he was also chairman of the Knesset committee on foreign affairs and defense and a member of several other committees from February 1949 until his death.

In 1971 a collection of his essays and articles appeared posthumously under the title Struggles: A Collection of Articles and Essays .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Knesset