Moshe Aram

Moshe Aram 1955

Moshe Aram (birth name: Mosche Kazanowski or Mosche Kasarnowski ; Hebrew משה ארם; * August 7, 1896 in Ljady , Russian Empire ; † October 14, 1978 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli politician from the Russian Empire who was elected as a member of the first Knesset in 1949 and was a member of it for fourteen years with interruptions.

Life

Aram first attended the Jewish primary school and then from 1912 to 1916 the Jewish secondary school in Homel . He then studied at the Psycho-Neurological Institute in Saint Petersburg before he began studying law at Lomonossow University in Moscow in 1918 . Already at this time he was involved as a member of the central committee in the Marxist - Zionist movement Poalei Zion as well as a member of the central committee of the cultural league and was temporarily rector of a secondary school in Kaunas .

After Aram's immigration ( Aliyah ) to Palestine took place in 1924 , he worked as a construction worker and road construction worker and was one of the leaders of the Poalei Tzion , for which he was a member of the workers' council of Tel Aviv-Jaffa from 1924 to 1935 and a member of the city ​​council in 1926 was elected by Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Between 1935 and 1937 he was an envoy of the Poalei Tzion in the USA and was then in Spain in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at the invitation of the Republicans .

After his return to Palestine in 1946 he became a member of the Zionist Executive Committee and the Organizing Department of the Jewish Agency . In addition, he was temporarily a member of the executive committee and director of the departments for mobilization and demobilized soldiers at Histadrut , the umbrella organization of the trade unions .

After the establishment of the State of Israel, Aram 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 United Workers' Party ( Mapam ) and later of the Achdut haAwoda until November 30, 1959. During this time he was a member of numerous Knesset committees.

After a six-year hiatus, he was again a member of the Knesset on May 4, 1965 and was a member of the Knesset until November 17, 1969. Most recently he was from November 1965 to November 1969 both chairman of the Knesset Committee on Labor and the Subcommittee on Population Policy.

Aram, who wrote articles for the Davar and Al haMischmar daily newspapers , also authored the Hebrew books Borochov's Principles in the Test of his Time (1973) and In the Tempest of Time (1995).

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Knesset