Ari Ankorion ( he, ארי אנקוריון, born 2 October 1908 – 11 March 1986) was an Israeli politician and lawyer.

Biography

Ari Wolowitzky (later Ankorian) was born in Kalvarija in the

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. He attended a

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and a

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science and technology school. He studied law at

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and was certified as a lawyer. While a student, he joined the Zionist Students Organisation in Kaunas. He was also a member of the Socialist Zionist Party and the League for a Workers Israel. In 1933, he made

aliyah Aliyah (, ; he, עֲלִיָּה ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the State of Israel. Traditionally descri ...

Mandate 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 i ...

. He died in 1986 at the age of 77.

Legal and political career

After the move to Palestine, he worked as a lawyer in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. Between 1934 and 1935, he was a member of the

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger i ...

secretariat in the city. From 1936 until 1938, he was a

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correspondent for ''

Davar ''Davar'' ( he, דבר, lit. ''Word'') was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in the British Mandate of Palestine and Israel between 1925 and May 1996. It was relaunched in 2016, under the name ''Davar Rishon'' as an online outlet by ...

''. Whilst in London he also attended the

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, gaining a

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in philosophy. After returning to Palestine, he worked as a legal advisor for Hevrat Ovdim, the

Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...

's holding company, from 1940 until 1946. He was on the

list for the 1961 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 7 July 1965 as a replacement for the deceased

Moshe Sharett Moshe Sharett ( he, משה שרת, born Moshe Chertok (Hebrew: )‎ 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was a Russian-born Israeli politician who served as Israel's second prime minister from 1954 to 1955. A member of Mapai, Sharett's term was ...

. However, he lost his seat in the November 1965 elections. Nevertheless, he returned to the Knesset for a second time on 26 February 1969 as a replacement for Prime Minister

Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol ( he, לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik ( he, לוי יצחק שקולניק, links=no), was an Israeli statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Israe ...

, who had died in office.Knesset Members of the Sixth Knesset
Knesset website He was re-elected in the October 1969 elections, and again in

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, before losing his seat for a final time in the 1977 elections.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ankorion, Ari 1908 births 1986 deaths People from Kalvarija, Lithuania Jews from the Russian Empire Lithuanian Jews Vytautas Magnus University alumni Israeli lawyers Israeli journalists Alumni of the London School of Economics Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Mapai politicians Alignment (Israel) politicians 20th-century Israeli lawyers Members of the 5th Knesset (1961–1965) Members of the 6th Knesset (1965–1969) Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974) Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977) 20th-century journalists