Haim Yosef Zadok
| Haim Yosef Zadok | |
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| Date of birth | 2 October 1913 |
| Place of birth | Rava-Ruska, Austria-Hungary |
| Year of aliyah | 1935 |
| Date of death | 15 August 2002 (aged 88) |
| Place of death | Germany |
| Knessets | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1955–1965 | Mapai |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969–1978 | Alignment |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1965–1966 | Minister of Development |
| 1965–1966 | Minister of Trade and Industry |
| 1974 | Minister of Religious Affairs |
| 1974–1977 | Minister of Justice |
| 1977 | Minister of Religious Affairs |
Haim Yosef Zadok (Hebrew: חיים יוסף צדוק, born Haim Wilkenfeld on 2 October 1913, died 15 August 2002) was an Israeli jurist and politician.
Zadok was born in 1913 in Rava-Ruska in Eastern Galicia in Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He studied philosophy and Jewish studies at the University of Warsaw. He was a member of the Gordonia youth movement in Poland and in the "Poale Zion Federation" Party.
In 1935 he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and joined the Hagana and the Jewish Settlement Police. He studied law at the Hebrew University and was certified as a lawyer. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he joined the IDF as a lawyer in the office of the Chief Military Prosecutor. In 1949 he joined the legislative department of the Ministry of Justice as a deputy of the Attorney-General, a position he held until 1952.
In 1958 he was elected to the Knesset for Mapai. He was chairman of the Knesset House Committee, member of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Affairs, and member and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He was involved in the passing of the Law on Inquiry Commissions and the Basic Law: the Government, as well as in attempts to pass basic laws on Legislation and Civil Rights, sections of which were later passed in the Basic Laws on Human Dignity and Freedom and Freedom of Occupation. From 1965 to 1966 he was Minister of Industry and Trade.
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