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Shalom-Avraham Shaki

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Shalom-Avraham Shaki
Faction represented in the Knesset
1962–1965National Religious Party
Personal details
Born1906
Ottoman Empire
Died4 November 1990

Shalom-Avraham Shaki (Hebrew: שלום-אברהם שאקי, 1906 – 4 November 1990) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1962 and 1965.

Biography

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Born in Yemen in the Ottoman Empire, Shaki made aliyah to Palestine in 1914. He was educated at a religious school and college, before attending a religious teachers' seminary. He also studied at the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1929 he began working as a teacher in Hadera, before switching to Tel Aviv the following year, where he worked until 1951. Between 1950 and 1951 he was headmaster of a religious school in a Yemenite ma'abara in Ein Shemer. From 1952 until 1963 he was headmaster of a school in Bnei Brak.

A member of Hapoel HaMizrachi and, from 1956, the National Religious Party, Shaki was on the party's list for the 1961 elections. Although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 8 November 1962 as a replacement for the deceased Mordechai Nurock.[1] However, he lost his seat in the 1965 elections.

His daughter, Tehila, is the wife of Breslov rosh yeshiva Eliezer Berland.[2] He died in 1990.

References

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  1. ^ Knesset Members in the Fifth Knesset Knesset website
  2. ^ "Shuvu Banim: Portrait of Perilous Extremism". Keshev.org. November 1999. p. 6. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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