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Moshe Amar

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Moshe Amar
Faction represented in the Knesset
1977–1981Alignment
Personal details
Born21 May 1922
Safed, Mandatory Palestine
Died30 November 2015 (aged 93)

Moshe Amar (Hebrew: משה עמאר, 21 May 1922 – 30 November 2015) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1977 and 1981.

Biography

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Born in Safed during the Mandate era, Amar studied at the Scottish College High School in Safed and then at the School for Jurisprudence, and was certified as a lawyer.

A member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, he joined Mapam in 1951. He became secretary and chairman of the party's Haifa branch, and was a member of the party's secretariat and central committee.[1] In 1977 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list (an alliance of Mapam and the Labor Party), but lost his seat in the 1981 elections.

References

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  1. ^ Moshe Amar: Public Activities Knesset website Archived 2011-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
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