Zechariah Gloska
Secharja Gloska ( Hebrew זכריה גלוסקא; * 1894 in Yemen ; † September 19, 1960 ) was an Israeli politician. Gloska was a Yemeni Jew who was a member of the Knesset for the Hitachdut HaTeimanim beJisra'el party from 1949 to 1951 .
Life
In 1909 he emigrated to Palestine. His family settled in Newe Zedeq , a Jewish neighborhood settlement project in what is now south-west Tel Aviv , where he visited a cheder . Afterwards he was a factory worker and worked in agriculture.
In 1911 he joined the Zionist party HaPoel HaZair and was one of the first members of the workers' organization Histadrut . In 1922 he co-founded an organization for Jews from oriental countries ( Young Mizrahi ), of which he became chairman in 1925. From 1922 to 1928 Gloska was a member of the Jewish House of Representatives ( Assembly of Representatives - Hebrew אספת הנבחרים) under British Mandate Government.
In the following years he was in Egypt and the USA for an organization of Yemenite Jews ( Yemenite Association - Hebrew התאחדות התימנים בישראל), as its chairman he took the one seat his organization won in the first elections to the Knesset in 1949. In the Israeli parliamentary election in 1951, Shimon Garidi was placed at the top of the electoral list and Gloska lost his seat.
Web link
- Life dates on the Knesset website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gloska, Zechariah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli politician, minister and Knesset MP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yemen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1960 |