Mordechai Bibi

Mordechai Bibi
Mordechai Bibi
Date of birth 1 July 1922 (1922-07-01) (age 89)
Place of birth Baghdad, Iraq
Year of aliyah 1945
Knessets 4, 5, 6, 7
Party Alignment (1965-68, 1969-74)
Former parties Ahdut HaAvoda (1959-65)
Labor Party (1968-69)

Mordechai Bibi (Hebrew: מרדכי ביבי‎, born 1 July 1922) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Ahdut HaAvoda and its successors between 1959 and 1974.

Biography

Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Bibi was one of the founders of the Pioneering Zionist Underground movement in Iraq in 1942.[1] Between 1944 and 1945 he directed the Aliyah Committee in Iraq on behalf of Mossad LeAliyah Bet. In 1945 Bibi himself made aliyah to Mandate Palestine, and was involved in helping with mass immigration from Iraq between 1949 and 1950.[1] He also studied law at Tel Aviv University, and was certified as a lawyer.

From 1953 until 1959 Bibi worked for the Ministry of Defense. A member of Ahdut HaAvoda since 1946, he became a member of the party's central committee and secretariat in 1958.[1] The following year he was elected to the Knesset, and retained his seat in elections in 1961, 1965 and 1969, by which time Ahdut HaAvoda had merged into the Alignment. Between 1969 and 1974 he served as a Deputy Speaker, before losing his seat in the 1973 elections.

During the 1980s he published two books, From the Four Corners of the Rivers (1983) and The Pioneering Zionist Underground in Iraq (1988).

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