Yitzhak Rafael

Yitzhak Rafa'el (Hebrew יִצְחָק רָפָאֵל, as Yitzhak Werfel Hebrew יִצְחָק וֶרְפֶל; born July 5, 1914 in Sassiw, Galicia, Austria - Hungary, † August 3, 1999 in Israel) was an Israeli politician who as a minister of religion mid-1970s worked in Israel.

Life

Rafa'el attended high school in Poland. He was a member of the youth movement of the HaPo'el haMisrachi and founded a local branch of the Zionist- religious movement Bnei Akiva (Hebrew בְּנֵי עֲקִיבָא ( sons Akiwas ) ). In 1935, he immigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a teacher in Jerusalem. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned an MA in Humanities. He attended the Theological Seminary, New York, where he earned a doctorate in literature. For his doctoral thesis on the work of the medieval Provencal Rabbi Abraham ben Nathan in 1979 he was awarded, together with Yehuda Ratzaby with the Bialik prize in the science of Judaism ..

Rafa'el worked for the Jewish Agency and was responsible for Department of artisans and small business owners. From 1940 to 1947 he was a small journal heraus.Er was a member of the Haganah and represented the party HaPo'el haMisrachi in Parliament for Palestine Mandate, 1944. 1948 he was a member of Wa'adat Yerushalayim ( lit. Jerusalem Committee ). From 1948 to 1953 he was member of the committee of the Jewish Agency and headed the department of immigration, where he was responsible for the large influx of Jewish refugees (over 685 000 1948-1951 ). He rejected demands to restrict immigration numbers.

In 1951 he was on the election list of HaPo'el haMisrachi and was member of the Knesset. He was re-elected in 1955 and also in 1959 (as HaPo'el haMisrachi burst into the National Religious Party ) and he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health on November 2, 1961. He had long resigned in June 1963 in office until David Ben- Gurion as prime minister. July 1963 he was again deputy health minister and remained until March 22, 1965 at the office. He was re-elected in 1965 and 1969, and after the death of Chaim - Moshe Shapira in July 1970, Chairman of the National Religious Party ( NRP). He was re-elected in 1973 and appointed Minister of Religion of Golda Meir on 10 March 1974 and remained until June 3, 1974 at the office. However, Golda Meir resigned as PM and as Yitzhak Rabin then in June 1974 formed a new government coalition, the National Religious Party ( NRP) was not represented in the coalition and Rafael left the Cabinet. However, when the party joined in October of the same year the government coalition, Rafael was appointed on 30 October 1974 Minister of Religion and remained until 22 December 1976 in office until all the ministers of the National Religious Party were dismissed in December 1976, to be in a no-confidence motion to abstain. In the same year he lost the party presidency of the National Religious Party merged as Zebulun hammer and Josefsburg around him to expel from office. In the elections in 1977 Rafa'el lost his seat and he retired from politics.