Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sneh (Hebrew: משה סנה; born January 6, 1909 in Radzyń, Russian Empire as Moshe Kleinbaum, † March 1, 1972 ) was an Israeli politician and military. As co-founder of the Marxist- Zionist party Mapam, he later joined the Israeli Communist Party Maki.

Biography

Sneh went to Poland to school and studied natural sciences, mathematics and medicine at the University of Warsaw, where he reached the MD in 1935. During his student years he was a member of the Zionist student organization Yardinia, whose chairman he was in 1926; just as he was on the board of the Medical Jewish Students Union.

In 1931 he became editor of the journal Nowe Słowo ( " New Word ") and in 1933 the political editor of HaYanet. In 1932 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Zionist Federation of Poland and one of the leaders of the radical Zionists. In 1935, he was also a member of the Zionist Executive Committee.

Until 1939 he worked as a doctor, even during his time in the Polish army after the outbreak of the Second World War; In 1940 he emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine.

After his arrival in Israel, he joined the Haganah and was 1941-1946 Head of the national workforce. In 1944 he joined the Jewish National Council and was also a member of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish community in Palestine. Between 1945 and 1947 he was Chief Executive of the Jewish Agency, where he was Head of the Department for illegal immigration; In 1946 he became head of the European Department of the Agency. Sneh was on the list of the British police of persons who should be arrested as part of Operation Agatha, but he escaped arrest by fleeing to Paris.

In 1948, Sneh joined Mapam and was appointed deputy editor of the party newspaper Al HaMischmar appointed; He held this position until 1953. In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset. When he was re-elected in 1951, he belonged to a group that eventually in 1953 broke away from the party and the Left faction called bildete; In 1954 he then moved over to the communist Maki. About the list of Maki, he returned to the elections in 1955 returned to the Knesset, this could success on election level four years later but not repeat. Nevertheless, he received six weeks after the elections again a seat in Parliament - as a substitute for Meir Vilner. He finally lost his seat after the elections in 1965.

His 1944 born son Ephraim Sneh was also member of the Knesset for the Social Democratic Party Avoda.