Zalman Aran
Zalman Aran , maiden name: Zalman Aharonowitz ; Hebrew זלמן ארן; (* March 1, 1899 in Jusowka, Russian Empire , today: Donetsk , Ukraine ; † September 6, 1970 ) was an Israeli politician from Ukraine who was elected as a member of the first Knesset in 1949 and was a member of it for twenty years and several times Minister was.
Life
Training and trade unionists
After a cheder, Aran attended various yeshivots and an evening school in Ukraine. He later studied in Ukraine at an institute for theoretical sciences and an institute for agricultural sciences.
During the First World War in 1916 he became a member of a Zionist youth movement as well as an active member of an organization that helped Jewish refugees . After he became a member of the Self-Defense Organization Committee of the Young Zion Movement in 1917 , he worked as a teacher and statistician between 1918 and 1923 and at the same time was an activist of the Socialist-Zionist Party from 1920 to 1923. Most recently, he was also a member of the central committee of this party from 1924 to 1925 .
After immigrating ( Aliyah ) to the League of Nations area of Palestine in 1926, he earned his living as a construction worker and road construction worker before he was secretary of the Achdut haAwoda in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and from 1931 to 1934 secretary of the Tel Aviv workers' council. After that he was treasurer and director of the information department of the executive committee of the Histadrut , the umbrella organization of the trade unions, between 1936 and 1947 . As such, he was one of the founders of the school for trade union officials and in 1946 also became a member of the Zionist Executive Committee and in 1948 a member of its presidium. In 1948 he was also elected General Secretary of the Labor Party ( Mapai ).
Knesset MP and Minister
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 Mapai for more than twenty years until November 17, 1969. During his long membership in parliament, he was almost always a member of the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, and was chairman of this committee between February 1949 and August 1951.
In January 1955, Aran was appointed minister without portfolio in his cabinet by Prime Minister Moshe Sharet and then, after a government reshuffle, was Minister of Transport in the Sharet cabinet from June to November 1955.
Subsequently, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion appointed him in November 1955 as Minister of Education and Culture in the seventh government of Israel. He held this position until he was replaced by Abba Eban in August 1960.
In June 1963, Levi Eschkol , Ben-Gurion's successor as Prime Minister, appointed him Minister of Education and Culture in the eleventh government of Israel. He also held this ministerial office in the subsequent governments of Levi Eschkol and Golda Meir until December 1969.
Publications
- Growing Pains , 1941
- Trials of Education and Implementation , 1971
- The Front and Appearance: Written and Verbal Compositions , 1972
- Root and Star: Songs , 1973
- Thoughts on Educational Policy and its Implementation , Editor: Yosef Yanai, 1990
- Remarks on the Sidelines , 1996
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aran, Zalman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aharonowitz, Zalman (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jusowka, Russian Empire (today: Donetsk , Ukraine) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1970 |