Mordechai Olmert

Mordechai Olmert
Date of birth	16 January 1908
Place of birth	Buguruslan, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah	1933
Date of death	30 March 1998(1998-03-30) (aged 90)
Knessets	3, 4
Party	Herut

Mordechai Olmert (Hebrew: מרדכי אולמרט‎, born 16 January 1908, died 30 March 1998) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut between 1955 and 1961. He was also the father of Ehud Olmert, who served as Prime Minister between 2006 and 2009.

Biography

Born in Buguruslan in the Russian Empire, Olmert's family moved to Harbin in China in 1919. He studied at a local polytechnic, and was amongst the founders of the Jewish Students Organisation and the local branch of Betar. During this time he met Bella Wagman, who he later married. In 1930 he moved to Europe, where he worked at a Betar agricultural training group in the Netherlands, before making aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1933.

He joined the Betar work group in Hadera, and worked as an agricultural labourer until 1939. He was amongst the founders of the Irgun, as well as the Jabotinsky neighbourhood in Binyamina in 1946.

In 1946 he returned to China as an emissary for the Irgun fund. He returned to Israel to head Herut's settlement department, where he remained until 1953. A member of the party's central committee, he was elected to the Knesset on its list in 1955, and was re-elected in 1959. He lost his seat in the 1961 elections, and in 1965 left the party's central committee. In 1969 he joined the Free Centre, and was a founder of La'am in 1976.

He died in 1998 at the age of 90.

External links

• Mordechai Olmert Knesset website

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Name	Olmert, Mordechai
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Date of birth	16 January 1908
Place of birth	Buguruslan, Russian Empire
Date of death	30 March 1998
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