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Shevah Weiss (Hebrew: שבח וייס, Polish: Szewach Weiss, born 5 July 1935) is an Israeli political scientist and former politician.

Weiss was born on July 5, 1935 in Borysław, Poland (now in Ukraine). As a Holocaust survivor, he migrated to Israel in 1947. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a BA in International Relations in 1961, before doing an MA in political Science and contemporary Jewish studies and then a PhD. In 1975 he became a professor at the University of Haifa.

He served as a member of the board of the Haifa municipality between 1969 and 1981, when he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Alignment. Between 1988 and 1992, he served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and between 1992 and 1996 as Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1999 elections.

In 2000 he became a president of the Yad Vashem Council. From 2001 to 2003, he served as an Israeli ambassador in Poland.

Weiss speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian and English.

Shevah Weiss on the Knesset website

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