Ari Ankorion
Ari Ankorion | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1965 | Mapai |
| 1969–1977 | Alignment |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 October 1908 Kalvarija, Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 March 1986 (aged 77) |
Ari Ankorion (Hebrew: ארי אנקוריון, born 2 October 1908 – 11 March 1986) was an Israeli politician and lawyer.
Biography[edit]
Ari Wolowitzky (later Ankorian) was born in Kalvarija in the Russian Empire.[1] He attended a heder and a Hebrew science and technology school. He studied law at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and was certified as a lawyer. While a student, he joined the Zionist Students Organisation in Kaunas. He was also a member of the Socialist Zionist Party and the League for a Workers Israel. In 1933, he made aliyah to Mandate Palestine.
He died in 1986 at the age of 77.
Legal and political career[edit]
After the move to Palestine, he worked as a lawyer in Jerusalem. Between 1934 and 1935, he was a member of the Mapai secretariat in the city. From 1936 until 1938, he was a London correspondent for Davar. Whilst in London he also attended the London School of Economics, gaining a PhD in philosophy. After returning to Palestine, he worked as a legal advisor for Hevrat Ovdim, the Histadrut's holding company, from 1940 until 1946.
He was on the Mapai list for the 1961 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 7 July 1965 as a replacement for the deceased Moshe Sharett.[2] However, he lost his seat in the November 1965 elections. Nevertheless, he returned to the Knesset for a second time on 26 February 1969 as a replacement for Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who had died in office.[3] He was re-elected in the October 1969 elections, and again in 1973, before losing his seat for a final time in the 1977 elections.
References[edit]
- ^ "Ari Ankorion".
- ^ Knesset Members of the Fifth Knesset Knesset website
- ^ Knesset Members of the Sixth Knesset Knesset website
External links[edit]
- Ari Ankorion on the Knesset website
| International | |
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- 1908 births
- 1986 deaths
- 20th-century Israeli lawyers
- 20th-century Israeli journalists
- Alignment (Israel) politicians
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Israeli lawyers
- Israeli people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Mandatory Palestine people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- Mapai politicians
- Members of the 5th Knesset (1961–1965)
- Members of the 6th Knesset (1965–1969)
- Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974)
- Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977)
- People from Kalvarija, Lithuania
- Vytautas Magnus University alumni