Menachem Savidor

Menachem Savidor ( born August 20, 1917 in Bachmut, Ukraine; † 2 November 1988) was an Israeli politician who was at times also Speaker of the Knesset.

Life

Officer in the British Army and the IDF and managers

After he screwed up with his family in 1922, Białystok, he first attended school in Poland, and then studied at the University of Vilnius. After a stay in Japan in 1941, he joined as a soldier in the British Army and served in that during the Second World War, before retiring in 1946 from active military service. During this time he attended both in the British Army as well as in France and the United States, courses and seminars in the fields of management, logistics and business.

After the founding of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, transferred to the incorporated on May 31, 1948 Israel Defense Forces and served there first as founder and first commander of the Military School of Organization and Management. Subsequently, he was chief of police and disciplinary department and retired in 1953 as a lieutenant colonel from active military service.

Following Savidor who in 1953 also became a member of the Party of General Zionists, was deputy director in the Ministry of Transport. After that, he was from 1954 to 1964 Director General of the state railway company of Israel Railways, before he was Director General of Vered until 1967, a subsidiary of the construction company Rassco. He was subsequently 1968-1977 Director General of Citrus Fruit Export Company.

In addition Savidor began his political career and was between 1969 and 1974 Member of the City Council of Tel Aviv and there also is also the Chairman of the Group of Gahal which merged in 1973 with the Herut to Likud. In 1976 he was deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Likud and was also head of the think tank of the party.

MP and Speaker of the Knesset

On 13 June 1977 Savidor was first elected to the Knesset and represented in this by August 13, 1984, the interests of the Likud. Between June 1977 and July 1981 he was chairman of subcommittees on energy-related stocks, the marketing of animal products, the use of special train wagons as well as against tax evasion in agriculture. Most recently, he was on 20 July 1981 to 13 August 1984 as a speaker of the Knesset ( Speaker of the Knesset) Parliament President.

After his retirement from Parliament he was the first from 1985 to 1986 Chairman of the Public Committee for the restoration of the economy and then in 1987 Chairman of the Fund for the security of Israel.

Later, the main train station of Tel Aviv, it was renamed Tel Aviv Central Railway Station Savidor honor.