Moshe Sneh
| Moshe Sneh | |
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| Date of birth | 6 January 1909 |
| Place of birth | Radzyń, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1940 |
| Date of death | 1 March 1972 (aged 63) |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1952 | Mapam |
| 1952–1954 | Left Faction |
| 1954–1972 | Maki |
Moshe Sneh (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה סְנֶה, Moshe Kleinbaum; 6 January 1909 – 1 March 1972) was an Israeli politician and military figure. One of the founders of Mapam, he later joined the Israeli Communist Party (Maki), and was one of the leaders of a more pro-Israeli split in 1965.
Sneh attended high school in Poland before studying natural sciences, mathematics and medicine at the University of Warsaw, gaining an MD in 1935. Whilst a student, he was a member of the Yardinia Zionist student organisation, becoming its chairman in 1926, and was also chairman of the Medical Jewish Students Union.
He became the editor of the Nowe Słowo newspaper in 1931, and the political editor of HaYanet in 1933. In 1932 he had been elected to the central committee of the Zionist Federation of Poland, and was a leader of the radical Zionists. In 1935 he also became a member of the Zionist Executive Committee.
He worked as a doctor until 1939, including in the Polish Army following the outbreak of World War II, and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1940.
Upon arriving in Mandatory Palestine, he joined the Hagana, and was head of its national staff between 1941 and 1946. In 1944 he joined the Jewish National Council, and was also a member of the Assembly of Representatives. Between 1945 and 1947 he sat on the board of the Jewish Agency, heading its illegal immigration department. In 1946 he became head of the Agency's political department for Europe. Sneh's name was on the British Police's list of people to arrest in Operation Agatha, but he avoided arrest by fleeing to Paris.
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