Dov Ben-Meir (; 11 August 1927 – 21 March 2020) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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for the

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between 1981 and 1988.

Biography

Born Dov Zucker in

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in 1927, Ben-Meir

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in 1935. He attended the

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, and later studied for a BA in economics and political science at the

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. In 1947 he was amongst the founders of kibbutz

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, where he lived until 1953. He was also a member of the Meuhedet movement, and was amongst its national leadership until 1954. In that year he became director of the Publications Service in the

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Office, where he worked until 1962. In 1962 he founded the Israeli Cancer Association, and served as its director general until 1967.Dov Ben-Meir: Public Activities
Knesset website A member of the Labor Party, he chaired its

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branch from 1970 until 1976. He was also chairman of the Tel Aviv branch of the

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, and from 1976 until 1983 was a member of its national management. In

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he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list (an alliance of the Labor Party and

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). In 1983 he became first deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. The following year he was re-elected to the Knesset, but lost his seat in the 1988 elections. Between 1989 and 1990 he worked as an advisor on promoting ties with

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-speaking countries for

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. Since then he worked as an economic advisor to German companies doing business in Israel, for the

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and

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. He was also a senior lecturer at the

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college, the Labor Productivity Institute and the R&D institute at the Technion.

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