Avraham Ofer
Abraham Ofer (Hebrew אברהם עופר; * 1922 in Chorostków; † January 3, 1977 in Tel Aviv born when Abraham Hirsch) was an Israeli politician and in the period from June 3, 1974 until his voluntary death on 3 January. 1977 housing Minister of the country.
Life
Abraham Ofer in 1922 when Abraham Hirsch in Chorostków (Poland, today Chorostkiw in Ukraine) was born. In 1933 he emigrated during the fifth aliyah from Poland into the British Mandate of Palestine. There he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He joined the paramilitary Haganah at in 1937. He belongs to the re- founders of the kibbutz Hamadia in 1942. Likewise he belonged in 1944 to the boy leadership fc (English Young Leadership ) of Mifleget Poale Eretz Yisrael and the founders of the Hakfar HaJarok (Hebrew הכפר הירוק ).
During the Palestine war he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Navy and was the first commander of the Naval Base Eilat. He was elected in 1952 to party secretary in the Tel Aviv district of the party Mifleget Poale Eretz Yisrael. During his tenure in the Ministry of Agriculture, this began in 1958, he founded the Poultry Council ( english Poultry Council) and was Deputy Director of Economic Affairs. He was a member of the negotiating team with the European Economic Community in 1964. At the end of 1964 he was Director General of the Ashdod Company, the port operator in Ashdod. In 1965 he was elected to the city council and deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. Deputy mayor, he was until his appointment as Managing Director of Shikun Ovdim in 1967.
In the elections on 28 October 1969, he was in the Seventh Knesset for the HaMa'arach, an electoral alliance between Mifleget Poale Eretz Yisrael and Ahdut Haavoda chosen. In the following years he sat down for a change of the electoral system in Israel to the D' Hondt method, together with Yohanan Bader ( Gachal ), a. The electoral system was implemented for election on 31 December 1973 the Eighth Knesset, also moved into the Abraham Ofer. The following coalition negotiations with the new government, he received the post of Minister of Housing, which he held on 3 June 1974 until his death on January 3, 1977.
An investigation against Abraham Ofer in November / December 1976, triggered by the same people as in the Yadlin affair in October 1976, Abraham Ofer has not been in a position to fight against the allegations made against him (English to bear any more ) and resigned voluntarily on January 3, 1977 from the life.