Arye Eliav
| Aryeh Eliav | |
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| Date of birth | 21 November 1921 |
| Place of birth | Moscow, Russia |
| Year of aliyah | 1924 |
| Date of death | 30 May 2010 (aged 88) |
| Knessets | 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969–1975 | Alignment |
| 1975 | Independent |
| 1975–1976 | Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement |
| 1976–1977 | Independent Socialist Faction |
| 1977–1979 | Left Camp of Israel |
| 1988–1991 | Alignment |
| 1991–1992 | Labor Party |
Aryeh "Lova" Eliav (Hebrew: אריה "לובה" אליאב, 21 November 1921 – 30 May 2010), was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for several factions in three spells between 1965 and 1992.
Lev Lipschitz (later Aryeh Eliav) was born in Moscow. His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. He studied history and sociology, gaining a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a teacher and sociologist. He later served as a visiting professor in several American academic institutes, including two years at Harvard University (1979–1980) and his two terms at Trinity College in the 1990s.
As a teenager, he joined the Haganah in 1936, before joining the British Army in 1940, serving in an artillery unit. Upon his return home in 1945 he helped the Aliyah Bet movement and served as a colonel in the IDF. He later worked as an aide to Levi Eshkol on the topics of immigration, absorption and settlement. Between 1955 and 1957 he oversaw the foundation of several settlements in Lakhish Regional Council area. During the Suez Crisis he supervised Operation Tushia, which transported the Jews of Port Said to Israel.
In 1958 he returned to Moscow, where he worked as the first secretary in the Israeli embassy, a position he held until 1960.
Eliav married Tania Zvi, a Holocaust survivor from Kaunas, Lithuania, who was part of a group of refugees Eliav smuggled into Palestine as the commander of an illegal immigration ship in 1947. They had three children, Zvi, Ofra and Eyal.
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