Aharon Uzan
| Aharon Uzan | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 November 1924 |
| Place of birth | Moknine, Tunisia |
| Year of aliyah | 1949 |
| Date of death | 23 January 2007 (aged 82) |
| Knessets | 6, 10 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969 | Alignment |
| 1981–1984 | Tami |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1974 | Minister of Communications |
| 1974–1977 | Minister of Agriculture |
| 1975–1977 | Minister of Communications |
| 1982–1984 | Minister of Immigrant Absorption |
| 1982–1984 | Minister of Labor and Social Welfare |
Aharon Uzan (Hebrew: אהרן אוז, 1 November 1924 – 23 January 2007) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s.
Uzan was born in Moknine in Tunisia, and was a member of the right-wing Betar movement in his youth. He made aliyah to Israel in 1949 and joined the left-wing Mapai party. He settled in Gilat, serving as the moshav's secretary and treasurer between 1952 and 1959. In 1960 he founded the Negev Moshav Purchasing Company, and managed it until 1968. He also founded the Negev Water and Merhav transport companies.
In 1965 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment's list (an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda), and was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture in January 1966, a role he held until he lost his seat in the 1969 elections.
Between 1970 and 1973 he was secretary of the Moshavim Movement. Despite not being a Knesset member, he returned to the cabinet in 1974 when he was appointed Minister of Communications. After Golda Meir resigned and Yitzhak Rabin formed a new government later in the year, he became Minister of Agriculture. In March 1975 he regained the Communications portfolio in addition to the Agriculture post. Following Likud's victory in the 1977 elections he lost his cabinet position.
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