- Yigal Hurvitz
MKs
Date of birth = 1918
Place of birth = Nahlat Yehuda,Palestine
Year of Aliyah =
Date of death =10 January 1994
Place of death =
Knesset(s) = 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Party =Likud
Former parties =National List , Telem, Ometz
Gov't roles = Minister of Industry, Trade & Tourism
Minister of FinanceMinister without Portfolio |Yigal Hurvitz ( _he. יגאל הורביץ, born 1918, died
10 January 1994 ) was anIsrael i politician who served as a government minister in the late 1970s and 1980s.Biography
Hurvitz was born in Nahlat Yehuda (today part of
Rishon LeZion ) in 1918. Between 1938 and 1941 he was a member of the secretariat ofHaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed , and served in theJewish Brigade duringWorld War II . In 1961 he joinedMapai and became a member of the party's central committee. He also served as a member of theMoshavim Movement 's secretariat between 1961 and 1965.In 1965 he joined
David Ben-Gurion 's new Rafi party, and followed Ben-Gurion to the newNational List in 1969. In that year he was elected to theKnesset on the party's list. Following its merger into the newLikud alliance in 1973, Hurvitz was re-elected on Likud's list. He was re-elected in 1977, and was appointed Minister of Industry & Tourism, a role he held until October 1978. In November 1979 he was appointed Minister of Finance, but left the cabinet again on13 January 1981 . On26 January he and two other Likud MKs broke away from the Likud to form Rafi - National List. On19 May he left the new faction to joinMoshe Dayan 's Telem.After being placed third on Telem's list, he lost his seat in the 1981 elections when the party won only two seats. However, following Dayan's death in October 1981, Hurvitz re-entered the Knesset as his replacement. In June 1983 he left Telem and re-formed Rafi - National List. Shortly before the 1984 elections he renamed it Ometz (lit. "Courage").
Although the party won only a single seat in the elections (taken by Hurvitz), it joined the
national unity government , and Hurvitz was appointedMinister without Portfolio , a role he held until 1988. In 1987 he re-joined Likud. He won re-election on Likud's list in the 1988 elections, but lost his seat in 1992.External links
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