Avraham-Haim Shag was an Israel

Israel

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i politician who served as a member of the Assembly of Representatives and the Knesset

Knesset

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Biography

Born in Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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, Shag was educated at the Torat Haim yeshiva

Yeshiva

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. He later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem, and was chairman of the city's religious counil in 1936.

He was amongst the founders of Kfar Sava, and also aided the foundation of the Bayit VeGan

Bayit Vegan

Bayit VeGan is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, Israel, with a mostly charedi religious population. Bayit VeGan is located to the east of Mount Herzl and borders the neighborhoods of Kiryat Hayovel and Givat Mordechai. The Shaare Zedek Medical Center is located near Bayit VeGan...

, Geula

Geula

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 and Romema

Romema

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 neighbourhods of Jerusalem. In addition, he helped establish the Mizrachi

Mizrachi (Religious Zionism)

The Mizrachi is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. Bnei Akiva, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi...

 movement in Mandate Palestine, and was a member of its bureau in Jerusalem between 1919 and 1921. He also became a member of the Assembly of Representatives

In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset

Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset...

 on the United Religious Front

United Religious Front

The United Religious Front was a political alliance of the four major religious parties in Israel, as well as the Union of Religious Independents, formed to fight the 1949 elections.-History:...

 list, an alliance of the four major religious parties. However, he lost his seat two years later in the 1951 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 75.1%.-Results:¹ Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki. Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz left...

. He died in 1958.

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