Aryeh Eliav

Arieh " Lowa " Eliav (Hebrew אריה לוֹבָה אליאב; born November 21, 1921 in Moscow, † 30 May, 2010 Tel Aviv) was an Israeli politician and sat from 1965 to 1979 and from 1988 to 1992 in the Knesset.

Arie Eliav emigrated in 1924 with his family in the British Mandate of Palestine. In 1936 he joined the Haganah and remained there until 1940, when he joined the British Army where he served in an artillery unit. In 1945 he returned to the mandated territory and was active until 1948 in the Aliyah Bet - movement.

He studied history and sociology at the Hebrew University. After he had there received his Bachelor of Arts, he began to work as a teacher and sociologist. 1958 Eliav was sent to Moscow to be there first secretary at the Israeli Embassy. A post he held until 1960.

1965 Eliav was first elected to the Knesset. There he was first deputy industry and trade minister and later deputy minister of immigration and integration. In the elections of 1969 he was able to defend his position.

Eliav was now Secretary of Avodah, which he remained until 1971. After his re- re-election to the Knesset in 1973, he resigned from the party. Eliav was one of the first Knesset now as an independent and then joined the newly formed party Ya'ad - at Tenoa'a LaZkhuyot HaEzrah. When the party broke up again in 1976, he founded in January 1976 along with Marcia Freedman, the Social - Democratic faction. Back in February, the party renamed Independent Socialist Faction.

In the Knesset elections in 1977 Eliav joined the Left camp of Israel ( Mehaney Smol LeYisrael, or shortly Scheli as an acronym of Shalom LeYisrael - Peace for Israel), a party that had recently emerged from the Association of Independent Socialist Faction with other small parties. The party won two seats. A rotation agreement provided now to divide the seats on five deputies. Accordingly, in January 1979 Eliav resigned to make room for Uri Avnery.

1984 Eliav tried unsuccessfully to be re-elected to the Knesset. In 1987 he returned to Avodah. In the same year, he led the project he initiated the Jewish Agency, which describes the founding of Nitzana, a community in the Negev desert foresaw. By 2008, he practiced there from the office of the municipal executive board. 1988 Eliav was re-elected to the Knesset. In the elections of 1992 he no longer went to.

Honors

Eliav was awarded the 1988 Israel Prize in recognition of his services to the Israeli society and the State of Israel. In 2003 he received the Ben- Gurion Prize.

Publications

• Between Hammer and Sickle (1965 )
• The Voyage of the Ulua (1967 )
• New targets for Israel (1969 )
• The Short Cut ( 1970)
• Land of the Hart ( 1972)
• Shalom: Peace in Jewish Tradition ( 1977)
• Autobiography: Rings of Dawn (1984 )
• New Heart, New Spirit: Biblical Humanism for Modern Israel ( 1986)
• On Both Sides of the New - Comers ' Camp (2006)