Avraham Abaas (, 1912 – 17 September 1958) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the
Knesset for
Ahdut HaAvoda between 1955 and 1958.
Biography
Born in
Damascus
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in the
Ottoman Empire (today in
Syria
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), Abaas was one of the founders of the local
HeHalutz branch. He made
aliyah
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to
Mandatory Palestine in 1929 and joined kibbutz
Kfar Giladi. He later returned to Syria as an emissary of 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 ...
, also working in
Lebanon and encouraging immigration from both countries between 1931 and 1934, returning in 1941 to assist
illegal immigration
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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. 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.
Knesset Members in the Third Knesset
Knesset website
References
External links
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1912 births
1958 deaths
Syrian Jews
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