Mordechai Nurock
Mordechai Nurock ( Hebrew מרדכי נורוק; * on November 7, 1884 in Tukums , Kurland Governorate as Markus Nurock ; † November 8, 1962 in Tel-Aviv , Israel ) was a Jewish politician who was a member of the Saeima Parliament of Latvia and the Israeli Knesset and, in late 1952, Israel's first post minister.
Life
Born in Tukums in Courland, Nurock attended universities in Russia , Germany and Switzerland . He received a PhD in philosophy and was ordained a rabbi . In 1913 he succeeded his late father Zvi Hirsch Nurock as rabbi of Jelgava ; In 1915 he went to Russia. As a Zionist , he was a delegate of the sixth Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903 and supported Jewish refugees during the First World War . Nurock joined the All-Russian Jewish Committee and formed a religious group called "Tradition and Freedom".
In 1921 he returned to Latvia , which had meanwhile become independent . In the parliamentary elections in 1923 he was elected to the Saeima for the Zionist religious party Misrachi , where he headed the minority group. He held his parliamentary seat until the dissolution of parliament in 1934. After the first occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union in 1940, Nurock was deported to Turkmenistan for his Zionist activities . His wife and two children were killed in the Holocaust . Nurock emigrated to Palestine in 1947 .
Immediately after his aliyah , he went into politics and joined the Mizrachi . In 1949 Mordechai Nurock was elected to the first Knesset on the United Religious Front's ballot paper , an electoral alliance made up of Misrachi, HaPo'el haMisrachi , Agudat Jisra'el, and Poalei Agudat Jisra'el . In 1951 he was re-elected and on November 3, 1952, he was appointed Israel's first post minister in the cabinet of David Ben-Gurion . Nurock ran for the presidential election in December 1952, which had become necessary after the death of the first Israeli President Chaim Weizmann . However, he was defeated by the Mapai candidate , Yitzhak Ben-Zvi . Shortly thereafter, the coalition government broke up and was replaced by a new one on December 24, 1952, in which Nurock's Misrachi no longer took part. As a result, he lost his ministerial office. Mordechai Nurock was re-elected to the Knesset in 1955 (Misrachi had since been absorbed into the National Religious Party ), 1959 and 1961. He kept his seat in parliament until his death on November 8, 1962. He was succeeded by Shalom-Avraham Shaki .
Web links
- Mordechai Nurock. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed March 26, 2014 .
- Нурок Мордехай (Электронной еврейской энциклопедии, Russian, accessed September 16, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation for Church and Judaism Basel: From the history of the Jews in Latvia. In: Judaica. Vol. 53, H. 4 1997, ISSN 0022-572X , p. 247.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nurock, Mordecai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nurock, Markus (maiden name); מרדכי נורוק (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian-Israeli politician, member of the Saeima, member of the Knesset |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tukums , Courland Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1962 |
| Place of death | Tel-Aviv , Israel |