Shimon Bejarano ( he, שמעון בז'רנו, 28 September 1910 – 17 October 1971) was an Israeli industrialist and politician who served as a member of the
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
for the
General Zionists
The General Zionists ( he, הַצִיּוֹנִים הַכְּלָלִיים, translit. ''HaTzionim HaKlaliym'') were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. The General Zionists supported the leadership of Chaim Weizmann an ...
between 1951 and 1959.
Biography
Born in
Plovdiv in
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...
, Bejarano was educated at the Fraunfeld
gymnasium in
Switzerland before studying economics at the
University of Milan
The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe ...
. He made
aliyah to
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
in 1936. Together with his three brothers he established the Bejarno Bros cigarette factory and Assis Citrus juices and canned fruit plant.
[Shimon Bejarno: Public Activities]
Knesset A member of
Bank Leumi's Board of directors, he was also a member of the advisory board of the
Bank of Israel.
[
Bejarano was a member of the General Zionists and was elected to the Knesset after being placed eighth on the party's list for the 1951 elections.General Zionists list]
Israel Democracy Institute He was re-elected in
1955, but did not stand for re-election in the
1959 elections following the early death of his brothers Joseph and Moshe.
He died in 1971 at the age of 61.
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1910 births
1971 deaths
Bulgarian Jews in Israel
Bulgarian Sephardi Jews
Bulgarian Zionists
University of Milan alumni
Bulgarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
20th-century Israeli businesspeople
General Zionists politicians
Israeli Sephardi Jews
Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–1955)
Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959)