David Stern (; 29 March 1910 – 13 February 2003) was an Israeli businessman and politician who served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( , ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...

for

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between 1979 and 1981.

Biography

Stern was born in

Suwałki Suwałki (; ; or סוּוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. A relatively young ci ...

in the

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(today in

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) in 1910. During

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his mother fled the Germans with him and his brother,

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, and found refuge with her sister in

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. Stern studied engineering in

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. He

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in 1935, and became a member of Lehi, of which Avraham was the leader. He worked as a building contractor, and was president of the Building Contractors Association. A member of the

Herut Herut () was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism. Some of their policies were compared to those of the Nazi party. Early y ...

central committee, he became a member of

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city council in 1969. He was forty-fourth on the Likud list (an alliance of Herut and other right-wing parties) for the

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, and although Likud only won 43 seats, he entered the Knesset on 18 June 1979 as a replacement for

Shmuel Rechtman Shmuel Rechtman (; 1924 – 23 July 1988) was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Rehovot from 1970 until 1979, and as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1977 and 1979. Biography Born in Rehovot during the Mandate era, Rechtman ...

, who had resigned after failing in an appeal against a conviction for bribery. Placed fifty-fourth on the Likud list for the 1981 elections,1981 Likud list
Israel Democracy Institute Likud won 48 seats and Stern lost his seat in the Knesset. He died in 2003 at the age of 92.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stern, David 1910 births 2003 deaths People from Suwałki People from Suwałki Governorate Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Jews from Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Lehi members Herut politicians Likud politicians Members of the 9th Knesset (1977–1981) 20th-century Israeli businesspeople Burials at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery