Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz

MKs


Date of birth = 10 January 1895
Place of birth = Bobruysk, Russian Empire
Year of Aliyah = 1920
Date of death = 4 December 1972
Place of death = Degania Bet
Knesset(s) =
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Party = Alignment
Former parties = Mapai
Gov't roles = Minister of Agriculture|

Kadish Luz ( _he. קדיש לוז, born Kadish Luzinski on 10 January 1895, died 4 December 1972) was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969.

Biography

Born in Bobruysk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Luz served in the Russian Army during World War I and was a founder of the Hebrew Soldier Association and the HeHalutz movement. He studied in a polytechnic in Germany, at the Economics Institute in St. Petersburg and the Agricultural Institute of Odessa University.

He made aliyah to the Mandate Palestine in 1920, and worked as a cottager in Kiryat Anavim and Be'er Tuvia.Cite web
title = Luz, Kadish
work = The Israeli Labor Movement
accessdate = 2008-09-01
url = http://tnuathaavoda.info/zope/home/100/people/1108047634/ he icon] The following year he joined kibbutz Degania Bet, and eventually became a member of the kibbutz union's secretariat between 1949 and 1951. He was also amongst the leaders of the Histadrut, serving on its comptroller committee between 1935 and 1940. Between 1941 and 1942 he was on the secretariat of Tel Aviv's workers' council.

He was elected to the Knesset in 1951 on Mapai's list, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture by David Ben-Gurion in 1955. After leaving the cabinet in 1959, he became Speaker of the Knesset, serving for 10 years, making him the second longest serving after Yosef Sprinzak. He died in 1972 in Degania Bet.

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