Yosef Burg
| Yosef Burg | |
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| Date of birth | 31 January 1909 |
| Place of birth | Dresden, Germany |
| Year of aliyah | 1939 |
| Date of death | 15 October 1999 (aged 90) |
| Place of death | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | United Religious Front |
| 1951–1956 | Hapoel HaMizrachi |
| 1956–1969 | National Religious Party |
| 1974–1988 | National Religious Party |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1951–1952 | Minister of Health |
| 1952–1958 | Minister of Postal Services |
| 1959–1970 | Minister of Welfare |
| 1970–1974 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| 1974–1976 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| 1975 | Minister of Welfare |
| 1977–1984 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| 1981–1984 | Minister of Religious Affairs |
| 1984 | Minister without Portfolio |
| 1984–1986 | Minister of Religious Affairs |
Shlomo Yosef Burg (Hebrew: שלמה יוסף בורג, 31 January 1909 – 15 October 1999) was a German-born Israeli politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset, and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the National Religious Party.
Shlomo Yosef Burg was born in Dresden, Germany, on 31 January 1909. He attended the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin from 1928 to 1938, and was ordained as a rabbi that year. He also studied at the University of Berlin from 1928 to 1931, and received a Doctorate in mathematics and logic from the University of Leipzig in 1933.
While studying at the University of Leipzig, he joined the Young Mizrahi religious Zionist movement. He arranged Jewish prayer services in private homes after German synagogues were burned, and worked underground to help Jews escape to Britain and the Netherlands. His mother and grandmother died in Nazi concentration camps.
In 1939, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine. He worked as teacher at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv before moving to Jerusalem. There he became a research fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Burg lived in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Burg was married to Rivka Slonim, who was born in Hebron and survived the 1929 Hebron massacre. They had a son, Avraham, a politician who served as speaker of the fifteenth Knesset, and a daughter, Ada, a doctor.
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