Avraham Abaas (; 1912 – 17 September 1958) was an Israeli 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

Ahdut HaAvoda Ahdut HaAvoda () was the name used by a series of List of political parties in Israel, political parties in Israel. Ahdut HaAvoda in its first incarnation was led by David Ben-Gurion. It was first established during the period of Mandatory Pales ...

between 1955 and 1958.

Biography

Born in

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in the

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(today in

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), Abaas was one of the founders of the local

HeHalutz HeHalutz or HeChalutz (, lit. "The Pioneer") was a Jewish youth movement that trained young people for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel. It became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements. History Before W ...

branch. He made

aliyah ''Aliyah'' (, ; ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine (region), Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the Israel ...

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in 1929 and joined kibbutz

Kfar Giladi Kfar Giladi () is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle of northern Israel. Located south of Metula on the Naftali Mountains above the Hula Valley and along the Blue Line (Lebanon), Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee ...

. He later returned to Syria as an emissary of the

Histadrut Histadrut, fully the New General Workers' Federation () and until 1994 the General Federation of Labour in the Land of Israel (, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center and represents the m ...

, also working in

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and encouraging immigration from both countries between 1931 and 1934, returning in 1941 to assist

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to Palestine. In 1944 he became a member of the Assembly of Representatives for Ahdut HaAvoda, and also served on the

Jewish National Council The Jewish National Council (JNC; , ''Va'ad Le'umi''), also known as the Jewish People's Council and the General Council of the Jewish Community of Palestine was the main national executive organ of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewis ...

. He was elected to the Histadrut's executive committee in 1949, and to the directorate of the Sephardi Communities Association in 1951. In 1955 he was elected to the Knesset on the Ahdut HaAvoda list, but died whilst still an MK in 1958, his seat taken by

Yerahmiel Assa Yerahmiel Assa (; 7 March 1919 – 11 October 2011) was an Israeli politician who served as member of the Knesset for Ahdut HaAvoda between 1958 and 1959. Biography Born Yerahmiel Asailov in the Caucasus area of the Soviet Union in 1919, Assa em ...

.Knesset Members in the Third Knesset
Knesset website

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abaas, Avraham 1912 births 1958 deaths Politicians from Damascus Syrian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine) Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959) Israeli trade unionists Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent Ahdut HaAvoda politicians Jews from the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon Sephardi Jews from Ottoman Syria Burials at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah