Ya'akov Uri

Ya'akov Uri
Date of birth 3 March 1888
Place of birth Russian Empire
Year of aliyah 1910
Date of death 26 July 1970 (aged 82)
Knessets 2
Faction represented in Knesset
1951–1955 Mapai

Ya'akov Uri (Hebrew: יעקב אורי‎, born 3 March 1888, died 26 July 1970) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1955.

Biography

Born in the Poltava Oblast in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Uri was educated at a yeshiva, and made aliyah to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1910. A member of Hapoel Hatzair, he was amongst the founders of Nahalal, the first moshav, and the Moshavim Movement, for whom he edited the monthly publication Talamim.

A member of Mapai, he was a delegate to the Assembly of Representatives. In 1951 he was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai list, but lost his seat in the 1955 elections.

He died in 1970 at the age of 82.

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