Meir Pa'il
Meir Pa'il ( Hebrew מאיר פעיל; * June 19, 1926 in Jerusalem ; † September 15, 2015 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa ) was an Israeli officer ( colonel ), military historian and politician (Moked and later Mehaney Smol LeYisrael).
Life
Pa'il served in the Palmach of the Hagana from July 1943 to 1948 . He studied history and Middle East studies at Tel Aviv University and completed his Ph.D. in military history. From 1948 he was taken over into the Israel Defense Forces (Zahal) . In the Palestinian War he was battalion commander in the Golani Brigade and fought near Rafah . In 1956 he fought in the Suez War as commander of the 51st Battalion. Pa'il, who was involved in the capture of Chan Yuni , resisted claims that there had been a massacre of Palestinians. The more than 200 Arab civilians killed by Israeli soldiers were fighters.
In addition to other assignments, he rose to the position of brigade commander and later became commander of the officers' school. Most recently he held the rank of colonel in the reserve and as such was head of the military theory department of the Israeli General Staff.
He was chairman of the left-wing socialist-Zionist blue-red movement , which was not represented in the Knesset and which had formed a bloc with the Communist Party (MAKI) ( represented in the Knesset by Samuel Mikunis ) since September 1973 . Both merged. In the 1973 election they won only 1.4 percent of the vote and one seat that Meir Pa'il took after Mikunis resigned. On July 25, 1973 the name was changed to Moked (Hebrewמוקד, lit. Focus). A small group of the New Israeli Left (Siah), mostly students, joined Moked.
Meir Pa'il became chairman of the Moked and was a member of the Knesset from 1974 to 1977 . Before the 1977 Knesset election, Meri and the Independent Socialist Group joined the Moked. The new party Mehaney Smol LeYisrael (Left Camp of Israel or Scheli for short as the acronym of Shalom LeYisrael - Peace for Israel) won two seats in the elections - until 1980 Pa'il also with Uri Avnery .
He was chairman of the En Kerem Natural Gas Plant Joint Committee and a member of the Education and Culture Committee, the Immigration and Admission Committee, the Labor and Welfare Committee, and the Subcommittee on Assessment of Academic Achievement in Elementary Schools.
Awards
- 1974: Yitzhak Sadeh Prize
Web links
- Meir Pa'il at the Knesset
Individual evidence
- ^ Former MK Meir Pa'il passes away at 89
- ↑ Article in the Haarzt .
- ↑ Michael Wolffsohn : Politics in Israel - Development and Structure of the Political System. Writings of the German Orient Institute, 1983, ISBN 978-3-663-05763-5 , p. 105 ff.
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SURNAME | Pa'il, Meir |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | מאיר פעיל (Hebrew) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli officer (colonel), military historian and politician (Moked, Left Camp of Israel) |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |
DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 2015 |
Place of death | Tel Aviv-Jaffa |