Eliyahu Meridor
Eliyahu Meridor | |
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![]() Meridor in 1959 | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1959–1965 | Herut |
1965–1966 | Gahal |
Personal details | |
Born | 20 July 1914 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 16 October 1966 | (aged 52)
Eliyahu Meridor (Hebrew: אליהו מרידור, 20 July 1914 – 16 October 1966) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal from 1959 until his death in 1966.
Biography
[edit]Meridor was born Elijhu Wierzbolowski on 20 July 1914 in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire (now in Russia), Meridor was educated at a Tarbut school in Grajewo in Poland, before studying law at the University of Warsaw. He also became a member of the local branch of Betar. In 1936 he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he worked as a lawyer. He joined the Irgun, and was a commander in Jerusalem, as well as being a member of the organisation's command. He was arrested by the British authorities and exiled to Africa.
In 1948 he was amongst the founders of the Herut movement, and chaired its Jerusalem branch. In 1959 he was elected to the Knesset on the party's list. He was re-elected in 1961 and 1965, but died in 1966 at the age of 52. His seat was taken by Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon.[1]
Meridor had four children; Dan, also a politician, Haggit (Hurvitz), Head of Pediatrics at the Bikur Holim Hospital, Avital (Darmon), Director of the Applied Research Initiative in Education, and Sallai, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency and Israeli ambassador to the United States between 2006 and 2009. His grandchildren included Eli Hurvitz, Executive Director of the Trump Foundation, and Shaul Meridor, Deputy Director of Allocation at the Ministry of Finance.
A street in Pisgat Ze'ev (East) is named after him.
References
[edit]- ^ Knesset Members of the Sixth Knesset Knesset website
External links
[edit]- Eliyahu Meridor on the Knesset website
- 1914 births
- 1966 deaths
- People from Grajewo
- University of Warsaw alumni
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- Russian Jews
- Israeli lawyers
- Betar members
- Irgun members
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Herut politicians
- Gahal politicians
- 20th-century Israeli lawyers
- Members of the 4th Knesset (1959–1961)
- Members of the 5th Knesset (1961–1965)
- Members of the 6th Knesset (1965–1969)
- Prisoners and detainees of the British military
- Burials at Har HaMenuchot
- Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah