Moshe Carmel

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Moshe Carmel

Moshe Carmel (17 January 1911 – August 14 2003) was an Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i soldier and politician. He served as Minister of Transportation

Transportation Minister of Israel

The Transportation Minister of Israel is the Cabinet of Israel at the head of the Transportation Ministry in Israel. A relatively minor post in the Israeli cabinet, it is often given to smaller parties in the governing coalitions....
for eight years.

in Minsk Mazowiecki

Minsk Mazowiecki

Minsk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 37 138 inhabitants . It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously in Siedlce Voivodeship ....
in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
(today in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
), Carmel emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924 when he was 13 years old. He was a founding member of kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
Na'an

Na'an

Na'an is a kibbutz near the city of Rehovot in Israel. Located within the Center District , it is under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council, and borders the villages Ganei Hadar, Ramot Meir and Sitria....
, and was active in the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed

Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed

Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed , sometimes abbreiviated to No'al is an Israeli youth movement, a sister movement of Habonim Dror, the Labor Zionist movement and a member of the IFM-SEI....
youth movement. Between 1939 and 1941 he was imprisoned by the British authorities.

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Moshe Carmel (17 January 1911 – August 14 2003) was an Israel

Israel

Transportation Minister of Israel

Background

Born in Minsk Mazowiecki

Minsk Mazowiecki

Minsk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 37 138 inhabitants . It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously in Siedlce Voivodeship ....
in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
(today in Poland

Poland

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
Na'an

Na'an

Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
, he was commander of the Carmeli Brigade, which was especially known for Operation Hiram

Operation Hiram

Operation Hiram, possibly also known as the Battle of Sa'sa', was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War It was led by General Moshe Carmel OC Northern Front, and aimed at capturing the upper Galilee region from the Arab Liberation Army forces led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji and a Syrian Ba...
.

He was elected to the third Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1955

File:Elect105Ashdod55.jpgElections in Israel for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%....
in 1955 as a member of Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
and was appointed Minister of Transportation. He retained his seat in the 1959

Israeli legislative election, 1959

Elections in Israel for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%....
and 1961 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1961

Elections in Israel for the fifth Knesset were held in Israel on 15 August 1961. Voter turnout was 79.0%....
, and was reappointed Minister of Transportation towards the end of the fifth Knesset in 1965. When Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
merged with Mapai

Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
to form the Alignment

Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
, Carmel joined the new party and retained his ministerial post in the sixth Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1965

Elections in Israel for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1965. Voter turnout was 80.4%....
.

Carmel remained a Knesset member until 1977, and published two books; Northern Campaigns (1949) and Between the Walls (1965)

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