Meir Talmi ( he, מאיר תלמי, 1909 – 18 November 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

for the

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and

Mapam Mapam ( he, מַפָּ״ם, an acronym for , ) was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party. History Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the kibbutz-based Hashomer Hatz ...

between 1974 and 1981.

Biography

Born in

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in the

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(today in

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), Talmi joined

Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair ( he, הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, , ''The Young Guard'') is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group ...

during his youth and was a member of the national leadership in Poland. He met his wife, Emma Levine, later also a Knesset member, when she visited Poland as an emissary of the movement. They later had three children, Yigal (born 1934), Yehuda (1940) and Binyamin (1946).Emma Levine-Talmi
Jewish Women's Archive In 1932 he

immigrated Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

, and became a member of kibbutz

Mishmar HaEmek Mishmar HaEmek ( he, מִשְׁמַר הָעֵמֶק, . "Guard of the Valley") is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the western Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Megiddo Regional Council. Mishmar HaEmek is one of the ...

the following year. He started working in the

Kibbutz Artzi The Kibbutz Movement ( he, התנועה הקיבוצית, ''HaTnu'a HaKibbutzit'') is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi and is made u ...

movement, later becoming its secretary. He also joined Mapam and became the party's secretary general. In

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he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, an alliance of Mapam and the Labor Party. On 10 April 1977 Mapam broke away from the Alignment, but rejoined two days later.Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups
Knesset website Talmi was re-elected in

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on the Alignment list, but lost his seat in the 1981 elections. He died in 1994.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Talmi, Meir 1909 births 1994 deaths Jewish socialists Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Kibbutz Movements secretaries Hashomer Hatzair members Mapam leaders Alignment (Israel) politicians Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977) Spouses of Israeli politicians