Moshe Harif

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Moshe Harif
Date of birth	2 June 1933
Place of birth	Sosnowiec, Poland
Year of aliyah	1934
Date of death	16 January 1982(1982-01-16) (aged 48)
Knessets	10
Party represented in Knesset
1981–1982	Alignment

Moshe "Moussa" Harif (Hebrew: משה "מוסה" חריף‎, 2 June 1933 – 16 January 1982) was an Israeli politician and kibbutz activist.

Biography

Born in Salman AliSosnowiec in Poland in 1933, Harif made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine the following year. He attended high school in Jerusalem, and went on to study architecture and urban construction at the Technion.

In 1952, he joined kibbutz Tzora. He became a member of the Meuhedet movement, and served as its co-ordinator in the Jerusalem area from 1953 until 1955, and as its secretary from 1958 until 1959. Between 1968 and 1974 he worked in the planning department of Kibbutz HaMeuhad. He later became secretary of Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim, and helped establish the United Kibbutz Movement, a merger of the two organisations.

In 1981, he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. However, he died in a traffic collision in January the following year. His seat was taken by Edna Solodar.^[1] Neve Harif, a new kibbutz established in 1983, was named after him.

References

↑ Knesset Members in the Tenth Knesset Knesset website

External links

Moshe Harif on the Knesset website

Persondata
Name	Harif, Moshe
Alternative names
Short description	Israeli politician
Date of birth	2 June 1933
Place of birth	Sosnowiec, Poland
Date of death	16 January 1982
Place of death

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