peoplepill id: aviad-yafeh
AY
Israel
2 views today
2 views this week
Aviad Yafeh
Israeli politician

Aviad Yafeh

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Israeli politician
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Rehovot
Place of death
Israel
Age
53 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Aviad Yafeh (Hebrew: אביעד יפה‎‎, 12 September 1923 – 19 May 1977) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1972 and 1977.

Biography

Born in Rehovot in 1923, Yafeh's family moved to Jerusalem a month after his birth, and were amongst the founders of the Beit HaKerem neighbourhood. One of the leaders of Maccabi Hatzair, in 1936 he joined the Haganah. Between 1942 and 1945 he taught at a high school and the David Yellin College of Education in Beit HaKerem. He also studied humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the Siege of Jerusalem in 1948, he fought at al Qastal.

Following Israeli independence, he took a course in diplomacy, and joined the Foreign Service. In 1953 he was appointed First Secretary at the embassy in Canada, where he worked until 1956. Between 1957 and 1962 he woeked as a consul in New York City, and was responsible for the information centre. From 1962 until 1965 he served as Director of the Information Department in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, before serving as political secretary and head of the Prime Minister's Office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir between 1965 and 1972.

Although he had been on the Alignment list for the 1969 Knesset elections, Yafeh had failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 5 April 1972 as a replacement for the deceased Reuven Barkat. He retained his seat in the 1973 elections, but lost it in 1977.

Yafeh was a member of the executive at Yad Levi Eshkol.

After leaving the Knesset he became director general of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization. However, he died in May 1977 at the age of 53.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Aviad Yafeh is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Aviad Yafeh
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes