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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 )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...
in the Ottoman Empire (today in
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
), Abaas was one of the founders of the local HeHalutz branch. He made
aliyah Aliyah (, ; he, עֲלִיָּה ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the Israel, State of Israel ...
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 Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country or the continued residence without the legal right to live in that country. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upwar ...
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


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abaas, Avraham 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