Yehuda Ben-Meir

Yehuda Ben-Meir ( Hebrew יהודה בן-מאיר; * July 27, 1939 in New York City ) is an Israeli politician of the National Religious Party (Mafdal) , the Jewish State, Democratic State ( Meimad ) and the National Social Movement ( Gescher ) , who was a member of the Knesset between 1971 and 1984 and at times Deputy Foreign Minister was.

Life

After attending school, Ben-Meir began studying at the yeshiva "Yishuv HaHadash" in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and then studied psychology at Yeshiva University and Columbia University , which he completed with a doctorate in psychology. After immigrating ( Aliyah ) to Israel, he became a lecturer in psychology at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan in 1961 , where he taught until 1968.

He then began his political engagement in the National Religious Party and worked as the director of its youth office. He was also a member of the action committee and the Mafdal board of directors. He was a member of the World Secretariat of the orthodox - Zionist movement Mizrachi and the Hapoel HaMizrachi , the predecessor party of Mafdal.

On April 4, 1971, Ben-Meir, who was temporarily a member of the Board of the National Religious Party, the successor of the late Shlomo Ben Yisrael Meir first time a member of the Knesset and heard this on until 13 August 1984th During his parliamentary membership, he was a member of the main committee and the Knesset committees for finance, for constitution, law and justice, for foreign affairs and defense, for energy, for education and culture as well as at times of the subcommittee on nuclear energy and the special committee on national health.

On August 11, 1981, Ben-Meir became Deputy Foreign Minister and held this position as representative of Foreign Minister Yitzchak Shamir until September 13, 1984.

After leaving the Knesset, he resumed teaching at Bar Ilan University, where he has been a senior lecturer in psychology ever since. In addition, he completed a degree in law and began working as a lawyer after completing his studies .

After leaving the National Religious Party, Ben-Meir was one of the co-founders of the Meimad in 1988, before he later joined the Gescher.

Publications

• National Security Decisions Making: The Israeli Case , 1987
• Israeli Public Opinion , 1995
• Civil-Military Relations in Israel , 1995
• The People Speak: Israeli Public Opinion on National Security, 2005-2007 , 2007

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Knesset