Eliyahu Hacarmeli was an Israel

Israel

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i politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1949 until 1952.

Biography

Born in Haifa

Haifa

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 during the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 era, Hacarmeli was educated at an Alliance School

Alliance Israélite Universelle

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 in his home city, before studying at an Alliance Teachers Seminary in Paris

Paris

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. Between 1920 and 1930 he worked as a teacher in the north of the country, and was chairman of the Southern Galilee branch of the Teachers Union.

A member of Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair is a Zionist group which was active in Palestine from 1905 until 1930. They were founded by A.D. Gordon, Yosef Ahronowitz, Yosef Sprinzak and followed a non-Marxist, Zionist, socialist agenda. In accordance with A.D...

, he served as a member of the Assembly of Representatives on its behalf between 1925 and 1931, as well as being a deputy member of the Jewish National Council.

In 1930 he moved to Jerusalem, where he became a Mapai

Mapai

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 activist, having previously been a member of Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair

Hapoel Hatzair is a Zionist group which was active in Palestine from 1905 until 1930. They were founded by A.D. Gordon, Yosef Ahronowitz, Yosef Sprinzak and followed a non-Marxist, Zionist, socialist agenda. In accordance with A.D...

. He also worked as an emissary to Morocco

Morocco

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 and Tunisia

Tunisia

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. 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 Mapai list, and was re-elected in 1951

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 whilst still a Knesset member in 1952; his seat was taken by Shlomo Hillel

Shlomo Hillel

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