Shevah Weiss

Shevah Weiss
Weiss in May, 2008
Chairman of the Knesset
In office
1992–2003
Personal details
Born Szeivah Weiss
July 5, 1935
Borysław, Poland
Political party Israeli Labor Party
Spouse(s) Ester Weiss
Children 2
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Warsaw
Signature Signature "S. Weiss"
Szevah Weiss
[[Israel Ambassador to Poland]]
In office
2001–2003
Succeeded by David Peleg
Shevah Weiss
Date of birth 5 July 1935
Place of birth Borysław, Poland
Year of aliyah 1947
Knessets 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Faction represented in Knesset
1981–1991 Alignment
1991–1999 Labor Party
Other roles
1992–1996 Speaker of the Knesset
2001–2003 Ambassador to Poland

Shevah Weiss (Hebrew: שבח וייס‎, Polish: Szewach Weiss, born 5 July 1935), is an Israeli political scientist and former politician.

Biography

Weiss was born in Borysław, Poland (since 1945 Boryslav, Ukraine) into a Polish Jewish family to Gienia and Meir Wolf Weiss. He was rescued by Poles during the German occupation of Poland. As a Holocaust survivor, he migrated to Palestine in 1947. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a BA in International Relations in 1961, before doing an MA in political Science and contemporary Jewish studies and then a PhD. In 1975 he became a professor at the University of Haifa.

He served as a member of the board of the Haifa municipality between 1969 and 1981, when he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Alignment. Between 1988 and 1992, he served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and between 1992 and 1996 as Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1999 elections.

In 2000 he became a president of the Yad Vashem Council. From 2001 to 2003, he served as an Israeli ambassador in Poland. On 4 January 2004, for his contribution to the cooperation between Poland and Israel, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded him with the Grand Cross (1st class) of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

From 2011, Weiss publish essays for Polish weekly newsmagazine Uważam Rze.

Weiss speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian and English.

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