Avraham Verdiger

Avraham Verdiger (Hebrew אברהם ורדיגר; ; born May 6, 1921 in Łódź, Poland, † November 27, 2013 ) was a native of Poland Israeli politician who intermittently total of 22 years as a member of the Knesset, and briefly Deputy Minister was responsible for the affairs of Jerusalem.

Life

Verdiger visited in Poland Talmud high school ( yeshiva ), before 1947 its immigration ( aliyah ) was to Israel, where he earned a degree in political science as well as his military service in the armed forces.

On 21 December 1967 he was for the Poalei Agudat Jisra'el ( פועלי אגודת ישראל ) was the first member of the Knesset and was part of this until the end of the eighth legislature on 13 June 1977 where he was most recently the electoral alliance with the Religious Torah front ( חזית דתית תורתית ) belonged. During this time he was temporarily also a member of the Knesset committees for public services, for work, for education and culture and of the Interior and the environment. In addition, from time to time also served as a member of the Special Committee to Investigate the primary and secondary educational system, and the Special Committee on the bill for the state comptroller ( Ombudsman ).

In the Knesset elections of 13 August 1984 Verdiger as a candidate of the Morasha ( מורשה ), which then formed an alliance with the Poalei Agudat Jisra'el, re-elected member of the Knesset and was part of this until his mandate waiver on June 17 1996, most recently as a member of the Agudat from Jisra'el ( מפלגת " אגודת ישראל " ) and Degel HaTorah ( דגל התורה ) formed Alliance United Torah Judaism ( יהדות התורה המאוחדת ). During this time he was a member of turn numerous Knesset committees, and was also a member of the Committees on Labor and Welfare, Internal Affairs and Environment, Rules of Procedure, for finance, for Constitution, Law and Justice, interpretations, and for immigration and integration as well as drug abuse. He was also temporarily a member of the United Committee against the increasing use of addictive substances, the Special Committee on the bill for local government, the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on Traffic accidents, the United Committee for the Knesset Budget and the Special Committee to change the legal status of Galilee.

After the Knesset election of November 1, 1988 Verdiger Chairman of the Knesset Committee on Ethics, before he was appointed on 27 November 1990 by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Vice - Minister for Affairs of Jerusalem in the 24th Government of Israel. In this role he was up to July 13, 1992 representatives of Prime Minister Shamir, who took over this ministerial office itself.