Mordechai Virshubski

Mordechai Virshubski
Date of birth	10 May 1930 (1930-05-10) (age 81)
Place of birth	Leipzig, Germany
Year of aliyah	1939
Knessets	9, 10, 11, 12
Party	Meretz (1992)
Former parties	Dash (1977-1978) Shinui (1978-1987) Ratz (1987-1992)

Mordechai Virshubski (Hebrew: מרדכי וירשובסקי‎, born 10 May 1930) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for several parties between 1977 and 1992.

Biography

Born in Leipzig in Germany, Virshubski made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1939. He attended the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv, before going on to study law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, later being certified as a lawyer. From 1955 until 1966 he worked as a legal advisor to Mekorot, before becoming Tel Aviv city council's legal advisor, a job he held unti 1977.

In 1974 he was amongst the founders of Shinui, and was elected to the Knesset on the Democratic Movement for Change list (which Shinui was part of) in 1977. When the party split the following year, he stayed with the Shinui faction. He was re-elected in 1981 and 1984. On 5 August 1987 he left Shinui to join Ratz,^[1] and was re-elected on the Ratz list in 1988, after which he became a Deputy Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1992, shortly after Ratz had formed an alliance with Shinui and Mapam named Meretz.

References

1. ^ Mergers and Splits amongst Parliamentary Groups Knesset website

External links

• Mordechai Virshubski Knesset website

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Name	Virshubski, Mordechai
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Date of birth	10 May 1930
Place of birth	Leipzig, Germany
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