Zvi Yehuda

This article is about Zvi Yehuda. For the rabbi, see Zvi Yehuda Kook.
Zvi Yehuda
Date of birth 1887
Place of birth Uman, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah 1906
Date of death 3 October 1965
Knessets 1
Faction represented in Knesset
1949–1951 Mapai

Zvi Yehuda (Hebrew: צבי יהודה‎, born Zvi Zaltzman in 1887, died 3 October 1965) was a Zionist activist and later a politician.

Biography

Born in Uman in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Yehuda organised two Zionist youth groups in Uman, Degel Zion and Tzeiri Zion. In 1906 he made aliyah to Ottoman-controlled Palestine, and was amongst the founders of Kvutzat Kinneret in 1908. In 1912 he helped establish Degania, the first kibbutz. During World War I he served as a member of the Galilee Workers Commtitee.

In 1920 Yehuda travelled to Europe to help immigrants of the Third Aliyah. The following year he helped found Nahalal, the first moshav ovdim, and was a director of the Moshav fund and a member of the Moshavim Movement's secretariat, as well as the Farmers Federation and Histadrut trade union. He helped establish Hapoel Hatzair movement, and was a member of its central committee. He also helped establish Hapoel Hatzair and Tzeiri Zion in the United States.

In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset on the Mapai list. However, he lost his seat in the 1951 elections. He died in 1965.

His wife was Nettie Antonow, daughter of Ben-Zion Antonow and Fanny Sharegordsky Antonow, founders of Ramat Gan, Israel.

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