Rabbi Ya'akov-Michael Hasani was an Israel

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i politician who served as Minister of Welfare during two spells in the early 1970s.

Biography

Born in Będzin

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 in Poland

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 (Russian Empire

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), Hasani studied at a yeshiva

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 and was certified as a rabbi

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. He made aliyah

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 in 1932 and was involved in the Haganah

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.

In 1951 he was elected to the Knesset

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 on the Hapoel HaMizrachi

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 list. He was re-elected in 1955, 1959 (by which time the party had merged into the National Religious Party

National Religious Party

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), 1961, 1965 and 1969. In December 1969 he became Deputy Minister of Education and Culture, serving until 1 September 1970, when he was appointed Minister of Welfare. He remained minister after the 1973 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1973

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, in which he retained his seat, but left the cabinet

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 on 4 April 1974. He returned as Minister of Welfare in October that year, serving until his death in July 1975.

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