Zalman Aran
| Zalman Aran | |
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| Date of birth | 1 March 1899 |
| Place of birth | Yuzovka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1926 |
| Date of death | 6 September 1970 (aged 71) |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1965 | Mapai |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969 | Alignment |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1954–1955 | Minister without Portfolio |
| 1955 | Minister of Transportation |
| 1955–1960 | Minister of Education |
| 1963–1969 | Minister of Education |
Zalman Aran (Hebrew: זלמן ארן, 1 March 1899 – 6 September 1970) was a Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician.
Aran was born Zalman Aharonowitz in 1899 in Yuzovka in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Donetsk, Ukraine), and received a religious education in a heder. He later studied agriculture in Kharkov. In his youth, he was active in Tze'irei Zion, and in 1917 became a member of the "Self-Defense Organization Committee" of the movement. He worked as a teacher and a statistician from 1918 to 1923. In 1920, after the party split, he joined the Zionist Socialists and was a member of its secret Central Committee from 1924 to 1925.
In 1926, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine, where he joined the Ahdut HaAvoda Party. He worked in building and road construction. In 1930, after Ahdut HaAvoda merged into Mapai, he was appointed the new party's General Secretary in Tel Aviv. From 1936 to 1947 he worked in the Histadrut Executive Committee as Treasurer and Director of the Information Department, and was one of the founders of the School for Histadrut Activists. He also became a member of the Zionist Executive Committee in 1946 and a member of its Presidium in 1948.
In 1949 he was elected to the Knesset, and was re-elected in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965. He chaired of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and was also a member of the House Committee. In 1953 he was appointed Minister without Portfolio and, in 1954, Minister of Transportation. From 1955 to 1960 and again from 1963 to 1969, he was Minister of Education and Culture.
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