Pinhas Lavon
| Pinhas Lavon | |
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| Date of birth | 12 July 1904 |
| Place of birth | Kopychyntsi, Austria-Hungary |
| Year of aliyah | 1929 |
| Date of death | 24 January 1976 (aged 71) |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1961 | Mapai |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1950–1951 | Minister of Agriculture |
| 1952–1954 | Minister without Portfolio |
| 1954–1955 | Minister of Defense |
Pinhas Lavon (Hebrew: פנחס לבון, 12 July 1904 – 24 January 1976) was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair.
Lavon was born as Pinhas Lubianiker in Kopychyntsi in what was previously Galicia in Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine). He studied law at the University of Lviv, where he organized Histadrut organizations in the region. He made aliyah and moved to Mandate Palestine in 1929.
Lavon was elected to the first Knesset in 1949, and served briefly as the leader of the Histadrut in 1949–50. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture in David Ben-Gurion's second government.
He retained his seat in the 1951 elections, and in 1952 was appointed Minister without Portfolio. Following Ben-Gurion's resignation, he was appointed Minister of Defense in 1954. However, he resigned from the cabinet after he was accused of authorizing an Israeli false flag operation in Egypt, which came to be known as the Lavon Affair.
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