Zalman Aran

Zalman Aran, Birth Name: Zalman Aharonowitz; Hebrew זלמן ארן; ( Born March 1, 1899 in Jusowka, Russian Empire, today: Donetsk, Ukraine, † September 6, 1970 ) was a native of Ukraine Israeli politician, who was elected in 1949 as Member of Parliament in the first Knesset and belonged to these twenty years as well as multiple ministers.

Life

Training and trade unionists

Aran visited by a cheder various yeshivot and an evening school in the Ukraine. Later he studied in Ukraine at an institute for theoretical sciences and Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

During the First World War he was a member of both 1916 Zionist youth movement as well as an active member of an organization that helped Jewish refugees. After 1917 a member of the organizing committee of the self-defense movement Young Zion was, he was 1918-1923 as a teacher and statisticians working and at the same time from 1920 to 1923 activists of the Socialist- Zionist party. Most recently, he was from 1924 to 1925 a member of the Central Committee of the party.

After his immigration ( aliyah ) into the League of Nations Mandate of Palestine in 1926, he earned his living as a construction worker and road construction worker before he was secretary of the Ahdut haAvoda in Tel Aviv- Jaffa, and from 1931 to 1934 secretary of the Workers' Council of Tel Aviv. After that, he was 1936-1947 Treasurer and Director of the Information Department of the Executive Committee of the Histadrut, the umbrella organization of trade unions. As such, he was one of the founders of the School of union officials and in 1946 a member of the Zionist Executive Committee and Member of its Executive Committee in 1948. In 1948 he was also appointed General Secretary of the Workers' Party ( Mapai ) selected.

Member of the Knesset and Minister

After the establishment of Israel, Aram was on February 14, first time in 1949 and was a member of the Knesset this as a representative of the Mapai more than twenty years until November 17, 1969. During his long parliamentary membership he was almost continuously at the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and was between February 1949 and August 1951, the chairman of this committee.

In January 1955, Aran by Prime Minister Moshe Scharet appointed minister without portfolio in the Cabinet and was then following a government reshuffle from June to November 1955 Transport Minister in the Cabinet Scharet.

Then Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion appointed him in November 1955 as Minister of Education and Culture in the seventh government of Israel. He held this position until his replacement by Abba Eban in August 1960.

In June 1963, Levi Eshkol, Ben- Gurion's successor, appointed him as Prime Minister, Minister for Education and Culture in the Eleventh government of Israel. He also held in the subsequent governments of Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir to December 1969, this minister.

Publications

  • Growing Pains, 1941
  • Trials of Education and Implementation, 1971
  • The Front and Appearance: Written and Verbal Compositions, 1972
  • Root and Star: Songs, 1973
  • Thoughts on Educational Policy and its Implementation, Edited by: Yosef Yanai, 1990
  • Remarks on the Sidelines, 1996
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