Yosef Almogi

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Yosef Almogi
Erich Ollenhauer , Yosef Almogi and Guy Mollet (from left), Haifa 1960

Yosef Aharon Almogi ( Hebrew יוסף אהרון אלמוגי* May 5, 1910 as Josef Karlenboim in Hrubieszów , Russian Empire , today Poland ; † November 2, 1991 in Haifa ) was an Israeli politician.

Life

Almogi worked for the Hagana in Kfar Saba , Tel Aviv (1936) and Haifa (1937). In 1940 he enrolled in the British Army and fought against National Socialist Germany in Greece during World War II . On April 30, 1941, he and his unit were taken prisoner by Germany .

In the post-war period he returned to Israel and worked as a politician in David Ben-Gurion's Mapai . From 1959 to 1961 he was General Secretary of Mapai. Almogi was a member of the Knesset from 1955 to 1977 and, under Ben-Gurion, Minister for Building and Housing and Development Minister from October 1962 . When Levi Eschkol became prime minister in 1963, Almogi retained both ministerial posts. In 1976 he was also chairman of the Jewish Agency .

Fonts

literature

  • Howard M Sachar: A History of Israel From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1979, ISBN 0-394-73679-6 .

Archive source

  • Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem: The Office of Yosef Almogi (S85), Personal papers (AK292).

Web links

Commons : Yosef Almogi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Total commitment. , P. 39
  2. ^ Reference ( memento of September 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Jewish Agency (English), accessed on November 22, 2012