Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
| Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | |
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| Date of birth | 17 July 1906 |
| Place of birth | Bukovina, Austria-Hungary |
| Year of aliyah | 1928 |
| Date of death | 19 May 2006 (aged 99) |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1954 | Mapam |
| 1954–1965 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969–1977 | Alignment |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1959–1962 | Minister of Transport |
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (Hebrew: יצחק בן אהרון;17 July 1906 – 19 May 2006) was an Israeli left-wing politician.
He was a Knesset member from the first to the fifth Knessets and in the seventh and eighth, and a former Minister of Transport and General secretary of the Histadrut. The philosopher Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon is his son.
Ben-Aharon was born Yitzhak Nussenbaum (see Hebrew version of this page) in the Bukovina region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Romania). He attended high school in Cernăuţi and studied at the Advanced School for Political Science in Berlin.
He became a leader in Hashomer Hatzair in Romania, and in 1928 he emigrated to Mandate Palestine. In 1933, he became a member of kibbutz Givat Haim and after the 1952 split in the Kibbutz Movement, he joined the Mapam-affiliated Givat Haim (Meuhad), where he remained a member for the rest of his life.
From 1932–38, he was Secretary of the Tel Aviv Workers' Council. In the summer of 1935, he served for a few months as the envoy for the Halutz organization in Nazi Germany until he was expelled by the Gestapo. From 1938–39, he was Secretary of Mapai.
In 1940, he enlisted in the British army to fight against Nazi Germany in World War II, where he reached the rank of Major. He was captured in the Greek front in 1941, along with other soldiers from the Yishuv, until they were released in 1945.
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