Ben-Zion Halfon

Ben -Zion Chalfon (Hebrew: בן - ציון חלפון; * 1930 in Tripoli, † 21 September 1977) was an Israeli politician, the deputy as a deputy of the Ma'arach Minister of Agriculture of 22 December 1969 to March 10, 1974 had.

Life

Chalfon was a member of the Zionist youth movement in his childhood in Libya. In 1947 he immigrated within the Aliya Bet with the ship Medinat HeYehudit to Palestine. Nevertheless, he was arrested by the British and taken to a detention in Cyprus. The following year he reached Israel, he was a member of Jephthah Brigade (Hebrew חטיבת יפתח ) of the Palmach, with whom he fought in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.

He helped nor other Jews to their emigration, and in 1949 he was among the founders of Chazaw (Hebrew חָצָב ), a town between Gederah and Beersheba.

In the elections of 1969 he was elected to the Ma'arach in the Knesset. He was appointed on December 22, 1969 Deputy Minister of Agriculture. In the elections of 1973, he was indeed re-elected, but lost his position. In the elections of 1977 he lost his seat in the Knesset. He died in an accident near Gederah killed.

In 2006, the Archaeological Museum in the desert town Nizzana (Hebrew נִצָּנָה, ניצנה ) was identified in the western Negev desert near the Nabatean city Nizzana on the border with Sinai, according to him.