Zecharia Glosca

Zechariah Gloska (Hebrew זכריה גלוסקא; * 1894 in Yemen, † September 19, 1960 ) was an Israeli politician. Gloska was a Yemeni Jew, who was of the party Hitachdut HaTeimanim beJisra'el 1949-1951 Member of the Knesset.

In 1909 he emigrated to Palestine. His family settled in Newe Zedeq, a Jewish neighborhood settlement project in the Southwestern part of Tel Aviv, where he attended a cheder. Subsequently, he was a factory worker and worked in agriculture.

In 1911, he joined the Zionist party HaPoel HaZair and was one of the first members of the Histadrut labor organization. In 1922 he co-founded an organization for Jews from oriental countries (Young Mizrahi ), whose chairman he was in 1925. From 1922 to 1928 Gloska was a member of the Jewish House of Representatives (Assembly of Representatives - Hebrew: אספת הנבחרים ) under British Mandate government.

In the following years he was in Egypt and the United States for an organization Yemenite Jews ( Yemenite Association - Hebrew: התאחדות התימנים בישראל ) act as its chairman, he in the first elections to the Knesset in 1949 a seat to win his organization could, took. In the Israeli election in 1951 Shimon Garidi was placed at the head of the electoral list and Gloska lost his seat