Meir Ya'ari

Meir Ya'ari
Date of birth	21 February 1897
Place of birth	Kańczuga, Galicia
Year of aliyah	1920
Date of death	24 April 1987 (aged 90)
Knessets	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Faction represented in Knesset
1949–1969	Mapam
1969–1974	Alignment

Meir Ya'ari (Hebrew: מאיר יערי‎, 24 April 1897 – 21 February 1987) was an Israeli politician, educator and social activist. He was the leader of Hashomer Hatzair, Kibbutz Artzi and Mapam, and a member of the Knesset.

Ya'ari was born Meyer Wald in Kańczuga, Galicia in 1897. At the break of World War I his family moved to Vienna. At the age of 17 he volunteered to the Austrian Army and served as an officer until the end of the war. He studied at the Agricultural Academy and at the University of Vienna. In 1919 he co-founded and co-led the Viennese Hashomer Hatzair. In 1920 he made aliyah to Israel. He worked at the Kinneret colony, and in the Gdud HaAvoda group, paving roads from Tiberias to Tzemah and to Tabgha. He was a prominent member in the first collective of Hashomer Hatzair in Bitania, and was among the founders of the Histadrut workers' syndicate. Since 1924 he served as Secretary of the world Hashomer Hatzair.

In 1927 he founded Kibbutz Artzi, was elected its secretary and took part in drafting its principles. In 1929 he was among the founders of kibbutz Merhavia, where he lived until he died.

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