Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sneh ( Hebrew משה סנה; * January 6, 1909 in Radzyń Podlaski , Russian Empire as Moshe Kleinbaum ; † March 1, 1972 ) was an Israeli politician and military officer. As a co-founder of the Marxist-Zionist Mapam party , he later joined the Israeli communist party Maki .

Life

Sneh went to school in Poland and studied science, mathematics and medicine at the University of Warsaw , where he received his MD in 1935 . During his student years he was a member of the Zionist student organization Yardinia , of which he became chairman in 1926; he was also the head of the Medical Jewish Student Union.

In 1931 he was editor of the magazine Nowe Słowo ("New Word") and in 1933 political editor of HaYanet . In 1932 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Zionist Federation of Poland and was one of the leaders of the radical Zionists. In 1935 he also became a member of the Zionist Executive Committee.

He worked as a doctor until 1939, also during his time in the Polish army after the start of the Second World War ; In 1940 he emigrated to the British mandate of Palestine .

After arriving in Israel, he joined the Hagana and was head of its national staff between 1941 and 1946. In 1944 he joined the Jewish National Council and also became a member of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish Community in Palestine. Between 1945 and 1947 he was a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Agency , where he was head of the illegal immigration department; In 1946 he became head of the Agency's European division. Sneh was on the British Police list of people to be arrested as part of Operation Agatha , but escaped arrest by fleeing to Paris .

In 1948 Sneh joined the Mapam and was appointed assistant editor of the party magazine Al HaMischmar ; he held this position until 1953. In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset. When he was re-elected in 1951, he belonged to a group that finally broke away from the party in 1953 and formed the so-called Left Group ; In 1954 he switched to the communist Maki. After the elections in 1955, he returned to the Knesset via the Maki list , but was unable to repeat this success at electoral level four years later. Nevertheless, six weeks after the elections, he got a seat in parliament again - as a replacement for Meir Vilner . He finally lost his seat after the 1965 elections .

His son Efraim Sneh , born in 1944, was also a member of the Knesset for the social democratic party Avoda .

Web links

Commons : Moshe Sneh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Moshe Sneh on the Knesset website