- Yair Tzaban
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Date of birth =23 August 1930
Place of birth =Jerusalem , Mandate Palestine
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Knesset(s) = 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th
Party = Meretz
Former parties = Alignment,Mapam
Gov't roles = Minister of Immigrant AbsorptionYair Tzaban ( _he. יאיר צבן, born
23 August 1930 ) is anIsrael i politician, academic and social activist.Biography
Tzaban was born in
Jerusalem in 1930. During the1948 Arab-Israeli War he fought in thePalmach . He was among the founders ofKibbutz Tzora , near Jerusalem.Cite web
title = Yair Tzaban, Meitar
work = Jewish Community Federatiom
accessdate = 2007-12-17
url = http://cache.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=667053079&page_url=%2f%2fcentral.ujcfedweb.org%2fga_speaker_bio.html%3fbread%3d1%26ID%3d245&page_last_updated=4%2f15%2f2004+4%3a05%3a24+PM&firstName=Yair&lastName=Tsaban]In the 1950s, after moving to
Tel Aviv , he studied in Seminar HaKibutzim (a teacher's college) and worked as a teacher and youth educator in the poor suburbs of Tel Aviv. Almost twenty years later he was graduated byTel Aviv University in general andJewish Philosophy .For 45 years Tzaban has been politically active. He was a member of the political bureau of the original Maki from 1965 to 1973 and its chairman in 1972-1973.Cite web
title = Yair Tsaban
work = Jewish Virtual Library
accessdate = 2007-12-17
url = http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/tsaban.html] In 1977 he was a co-founder of theLeft Camp of Israel , a peace list which ran for theKnesset andHistadrut elections. In 1981 he was elected to the Knesset, where he served for 16 years as representative of the Alignment,Mapam and Meretz. In 1992 he was invited by the late Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin to serve as the Minister of Immigrant Absorption and as a member of the Security Cabinet (until 1996). As Minister of Immigrant Absorption he strove to establish full co-operation with the leadership of the Jewish Agency. During the years 1996-2002 he served as the head of the Academic Board of the Lavon Institute for Research of the Labor Movement and lectured at Tel Aviv University to graduate students in the Department for Public Policy.Since 1996 he has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Meitar - The College of Judaism as Culture in Jerusalem. In 2000 he initiated the publishing of "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture in the Era of Modernization and Secularization", with Prof.
Yirmiyahu Yovel as Editor in Chief and himself as Director General of the project. The Encyclopedia was published, in Hebrew, in 2007.Cite news
last = Lev-Ari
first = Shiri
title = The book of the people
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2007-12-17
date = 2007-05-27
url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/860043.html] .Throughout his career he has been deeply involved in the fight against religious coercion, for pluralistic approach and for granting equal status to the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel. As a result of this work, he was invited to be the guest of the Congress of the Reform Movement (Atlanta, 1995) and of the Conference of the Rabbis of the Conservative movement in the
USA (1996). He also received (1997) Honorary Doctorate from theHebrew Union College .He is married to Shulamit, father to Semadar and Dror, and grandfather to Dana, Shai, Rothem and Noam.
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