Haim-Moshe Shapira
| Haim-Moshe Shapira | |
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| Date of birth | 26 March 1902 |
| Place of birth | Grodno, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1925 |
| Date of death | 16 July 1970 (aged 68) |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | United Religious Front |
| 1951–1955 | Hapoel HaMizrachi |
| 1955–1970 | National Religious Party |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1948–1951 | Minister of Health |
| 1948–1951 | Minister of Immigration |
| 1949–1952 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| 1951–1958 | Minister of Religions |
| 1952–1958 | Minister of Welfare |
| 1955 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| 1959–1970 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| 1961–1966 | Minister of Health |
Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hebrew: חיים משה שפירא, 26 March 1902 – 16 July 1970) was a key Israeli politician in the early days of the state's existence. A signatory of Israel's declaration of independence, he served continuously as a minister from the country's foundation in 1948 until his death in 1970 apart from a brief spell in the late 1950s.
Born to Zalman Shapira and Rosa Krupnik in the Russian Empire in Grodno in what is today Belarus, Shapiro was educated in cheder and a yeshiva, where he organised a youth group called Bnei Zion (lit. Sons of Zion). He worked in the Education and Culture department of the National Jewish Council in Kaunas (now in Lithuania), and in 1919 set up the Young Mizrachi, which became a leading player in the religious zionist youth movement in Lithuania. In 1922 he started work as a teacher at an ultra-orthodox school in Vilnius, and also served on the board of the Mizrachi group in the city. Between 1923 and 1924 he was active in the Young Mizrachi group in Warsaw, before attending a Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin between 1924 and 1925.
In 1925 he was a delegate at the Zionist Congress, where he was elected onto the executive committee. In the same year he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. In 1928 he was elected onto the Central Committee of the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement, and also served as a member of the World Mizrachi committee.
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