Maurice Orbach
| Maurice Orbach | |
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| Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for |
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In office 1964–1979 |
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| Succeeded by | Thomas McNally |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 July 1902 Cardiff |
| Died | 24 April 1979 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth |
| Children | Susie, Laurence |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
Maurice Orbach (13 July 1902 – 24 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician.
Born to a Jewish family, Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University.
Orbach was a lifelong member of the Marxist Poale Zion.
He was general secretary of the Jewish Trades Advisory Council ("a committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, aimed at countering anti-Semitism in business life" during World War II) from 1940 and remained its secretary until his death in 1976.
He was chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee.
He was active in the World Jewish Congress (WJC). In 1954, on behalf of both the WJC and Winston Churchill, he went to Cairo to help save the lives of Jews sentenced to death as part of the Lavon Affair. Later, he said that Egypt's President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had agreed to spare their lives but then reneged to balance their deaths with members of Muslim Brotherhood.
Orbach contested Huntingdonshire in the 1931 election and Willesden East in 1935 and in a 1938 by-election. In 1937 he was elected to the London County Council, representing St Pancras South West.
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