Yisrael Barzilai

Yisrael Barzilai (Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל בַרְזִילֲי than Jolek Eisenberg Hebrew יוֹלֶק אַיְזֶנְבֶּרְגְ; born October 1, 1913 in Nieszawa Hebrew נישאווה, Vistula Land in the Russian Empire, † June 12, 1970 in Israel) was an Israeli politician who was active in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s as an Israeli minister.

Life

Barsilai went to cheder in a Jewish High School in Wloclawek (Hebrew וְלוֹצְלָאוֶוק ) and was a member of the Jewish community in Wloclawek. Since the age of 11 he was a member of Hashomer Hatzair of. In 1932 he moved to Paris to study, before moving in 1934 to Palestine, where he became a member of Hechaluz. In 1938 he was elected head of the independent settlement department of the kibbutz movement. In 1939 he was among the founders of Kibbutz Negba.

In 1947 he became secretary of the World Union of Mapam. From 1948 to 1951 he worked as an Israeli ambassador in Poland. When he returned to Israel, he was from 1953 to 1955 political secretary of Mapam. He stood on the electoral list of Mapam and came as representative of the Mapam in 1955 in the Knesset, where he was appointed Minister of Health in David Ben -Gurion government coalition on 3 November 1955.

On November 24, 1958, he was appointed Minister of Communications, after the National Religious Party withdrew from the coalition and Josef Burg resigned as deputy of the NRP from office. Yisrael Barzilai retained the office as Minister of Communications in until 17 December 1959. After the elections in 1959, he was re-appointed Minister of Health, an office he retained until November 2, 1961

Although he was re-elected in 1961, Mapam was excluded from the government and Barsilai lost his position in the Cabinet. After the elections in 1966 he lost his seat but was again as a non-party on January 12, 1966 appointed to the government of Levi Eshkol to the Minister of Health, where he retained this office until 15 December 1969.

After the elections in 1969 he was not re-elected, but was appointed still in the Cabinet as Minister without portfolio, and was in this office until June 1970.

After his death, the hospital in Ashkelon was (whose foundations he had laid on 1961) after named him Merkas Refu'i Barsilai (Hebrew מֶרְכָּז רְפוּאִי בַרְזִילֲי ).