Avraham Granot
Avraham Granot | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | Progressive Party |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 June 1890 Făleşti, Russian Empire |
| Died | 5 July 1962 (aged 72) |
Avraham Granot (Hebrew: אברהם גרנות, 18 June 1890 – 5 July 1962) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
Biography
Abraham Granovsky (later Granot) was born in Făleşti, in the Beletsky Uyezd of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (today Moldova). He attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. In 1911, he traveled to Switzerland to study law and political economy at the University of Fribourg and University of Lausanne, graduating with a PhD in 1917.
Political career
In 1919 he began working for the Jewish National Fund in The Hague, and was relocated to Jerusalem in 1922. Two years later he officially immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He also lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on agrarian policy. In 1940 he was appointed director-general of the JNF.
Granot was a member of the New Aliyah Party and one of the signers of the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset as a member of the Progressive Party (the successor of the New Aliyah Party). He was re-elected in 1951, but resigned from the Knesset six weeks after the election. He was head of several public corporations, and sat on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science.[1]
In 1960, Granot was elected chairman of the JNF Board of Directors.
Commemoration
Neve Granot, a neighborhood in Jerusalem near the Israel Museum is named for him. The main street is Avraham Granot Street.[2]
Books (English)
- Land Problems in Palestine (1926)
- Land Taxation in Palestine (1927)
- Land and the Jewish Reconstruction in Palestine (1931)
- The Fiscal System in Palestine (1952)
- Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel (1956)
References
- ^ Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, edited by Raphael Patai, Herzl Press/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1971, pp.409-410
- ^ Information on street names in Jerusalem Archived 2008-12-24 at the Wayback Machine Jerusalem Municipal Council website (in Hebrew)
External links
- Avraham Granot on the Knesset website
- The personal papers of Avraham Granot are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is A202.
- 1890 births
- 1962 deaths
- People from Fălești District
- People from Beletsky Uyezd
- Moldovan Jews
- Bessarabian Jews
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
- Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli people of Moldovan-Jewish descent
- Progressive Party (Israel) politicians
- New Aliyah Party politicians
- Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951)
- Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–1955)
- Signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
- Zionist activists
- Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni
- University of Fribourg alumni
- University of Lausanne alumni
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty