Zevulun Hammer

Zevulun Hammer

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Date of birth = 31 May 1936
Place of birth = Haifa, Mandate Palestine
Year of Aliyah =
Date of death = 20 January 1998
Place of death = Jerusalem, Israel
Knesset(s) = 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th
Party = National Religious Party
Former parties = Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre
Gov't roles = Deputy Prime Minister
Minister of Welfare
Minister of Education
Minister of Religious Affairs

Zevulun Hammer ( _he. זבולון המר, born 31 May 1936, died 20 January 1998) was an Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

Private life

Hammer was born in Haifa during the mandate era. He joined the Bnei Akiva youth movement (which he led), and served in the Israeli Armored Corps within a Nahal programme. He graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a BA in Judaism and Bible, as well as a teaching certificate and worked as a teacher. Whilst at university, he headed the Student Union and was a member of the Presidium of the Israeli Students Association and the World Union of Jewish Students.

Political career

Hammer was first elected to the Knesset in 1969 as a member of the National Religious Party, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Culture in January 1973. In November 1975 he became Minister of Welfare, but together with his party colleagues, resigned from the cabinet in December 1976.

After the 1977 elections he was appointed Minister of Education, a role he retained until September 1984. For a brief period during the 10th Knesset, Hammer and Yehuda Ben-Meir broke away from the NRP and formed a new faction, Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre; however, they returned to the NRP after two weeks.

In October 1986 he became Minister of Religious Affairs, and in 1990 was re-appointed Education Minister. He lost his place in the cabinet after the NRP were left out of Yitzhak Rabin's government, but regained it following the 1996 elections, when he was appointed Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. In August 1997 he was also appointed Minister of Religious Affairs.

Hammer died in office on 20 January 1998, his death caused by cancer. He was married with four children.

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