Haim Boger (; 25 September 1876 – 8 June 1963) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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for the

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between 1951 and 1955.

Biography

Born Haim Bograshov in

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in the

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(today in

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), Boger received traditional education in a yeshiva, and took a correspondence course at a secular gymnasium. He later earned a PhD at the

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. He worked as a teacher in Hebrew schools in Russia. He was amongst the leaders of the Zionists for Zion organisation, which opposed the

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, a plan to give part of East Africa for a Jewish homeland. He attended several Zionist Congresses, and in 1906 he

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to Ottoman-controlled Palestine. He helped establish the

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, where he was one of the first teachers and later principal, working at the school from 1919 until 1951. After

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he established the

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neighbourhood in

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for homeless people. From 1921 until 1930 he was a member of the Assembly of Representatives and Tel Aviv City Council. One of the leaders of HaGush HaMizrachi, he was a member of The Union of General Zionists' directorate. He was elected to the Knesset on the General Zionists list in

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, but lost his seat in the 1955 elections. He died in 1963.

Legacy

Bograshov Street in

is named after Haim Bograshov,Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition, Volume 4, ed. by Fred Skolnik and so is Bograshov Beach at the end of the street.

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