Yerahmiel Assa (; 7 March 1919 – 11 October 2011) was an Israeli politician who served as member of the

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for

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between 1958 and 1959.

Biography

Born Yerahmiel Asailov in the

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area of the

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in 1919, Assa

emigrated Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

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in 1924. He studied at the HaNoar HaOved school in

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and also a member of the movement. He also attended the Kibbutz Seminar in

, and was amongst the founders of kibbutz Hulata in 1946, where he worked as a teacher. A member of the directorate of the Department for Middle Eastern Jews at the

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, he served as an emissary of

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, and between 1953 and 1954 also worked in Iran and Turkey. Assa was also a member of

, and was on the party's list for the 1955 elections. Although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 19 September 1958 as a replacement for the deceased Avraham Abaas.Knesset Members of the Third Knesset
Knesset website However, he lost his seat in the 1959 elections.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Assa, Yerahmiel 1919 births 2011 deaths Soviet Jews Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Jews from Mandatory Palestine Israeli schoolteachers Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959) Ahdut HaAvoda politicians People from Hulata Immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah