Yohanan Bader

Yohanan Bader (Hebrew: יוחנן בדר; born August 19, 1901 in Krakow, † 16 June 1994 ) was a native of the present-day Poland Israeli politician, who was elected in 1949 as Member of Parliament in the first Knesset, and this remained until 1977.

Life

After the conclusion of the State School in Krakow Bader studied law at the local Jagiellonian University and graduated with a doctorate in law. from. He then worked as a lawyer. Bader, who has already participated while studying in the Jewish Socialist Party, the General Jewish Workers' Union and the socialist- Zionist Hashomer Hatzair scouting organization, joined the Zionist movement in 1925, the revionistsichen and was also editor of the Polish-language weekly newspaper Trybuna Narodowa.

After the beginning of the Polish campaign in September 1939, he moved into the occupied eastern Poland by the Soviet Union. Because of its continued political commitment Bader was arrested in 1940 and sentenced to hard labor in northern Russia. After he was released in 1941 under the provisions of the Soviet- Polish Convention, he left the Soviet Union and joined the Anders Army in August 1942.

In December 1943, found his immigration ( aliyah ) place in the League of Nations Mandate of Palestine, where he joined the underground organization Irgun Tzwa'i Le'umi. Because of these activities, he was arrested in 1945 by the British Mandate forces and imprisoned until May 1948 for the stock of Latrun. After his release he was next to Menachem Begin of the founders of the Zionist revisionist Herut and was also the editor of the daily newspaper Herut.

After the establishment of Israel Assaf was elected on February 14, first time in 1949 as a deputy in the Knesset and was one of these as representative of the Herut until January 21, 1974, and thereafter until the end of the eighth legislature as a representative of the Likud on June 13, 1977 of.

During his long parliamentary membership was Bader member of several Knesset committees and 1957-1977 spokesman for economic policy of the Herut faction. He was also from November 1965 to November 1969 Coordinator of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Herut and last between January 1974 and June 1977 Chairman of the Knesset Committee for State Control.

Bader wrote the article about his parliamentary experience in newspapers such as Herut, Maariw and Hayom, published his memoirs in 1979 under the title The Knesset and Me