Shalom Levin
Template:Infobox member of the Knesset
Dr Shalom Levin (Template:Lang-he, born 1916, died 14 April 1995) was an Israeli teacher and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1977.
Biography
Born in Rakaw near Minsk in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), Levin studied at the Tarbut Teachers Seminary in Vilnius, and was a member of the Jewish HeHalutz movement in Poland.
In 1937 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. In 1952 he got an MA degree in bible, literature and the history of Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning there a PhD in philosophy of education in 1976. He served as general secretary of the Israel Teachers Union between 1955 and 1980, when he became its president until his death in 1995. Between 1963 and 1968 he also served as president of the International Federation of Teachers' Associations.[1]
A member of the central committee and secretariat of Mapai, he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list in 1969, and was re-elected in 1973. He was not included in the Alignment list in the 1977 elections,when the Likkud party defeated the Alignment and took over the government, and served as a member of the Histadrut's organising committee between 1977 and 1981.
He died in 1995.
References
- ^ Shalom Levin: Public Activities Knesset website
External links
- Shalom Levin on the Knesset website
- 1916 births
- 1995 deaths
- People from Valozhyn Raion
- People from Minsk Governorate
- Belarusian Jews
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
- Mapai politicians
- Alignment (political party) politicians
- Israeli trade unionists
- Israeli educators
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–74)
- Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–77)