Dr Yeshayahu Forder was a German

Germany

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-Israel

Israel

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i lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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 for the Progressive Party

Progressive Party (Israel)

The Progressive Party was a political party in Israel.-History:The Progressive Party was a liberal party, most of whose founders came from the ranks of the New Aliyah Party and HaOved HaTzioni, which had been active prior to independence...

 between 1949 and 1957.

Biography

Born in Charlottenberg

Charlottenberg, Germany

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 in Germany, Forder studied economics and law at Freiburg

University of Freiburg

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, Heidelberg

Heidelberg University Faculty of Law

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 and Königsberg

University of Königsberg

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 universitieis, gaining a law doctorate in 1916. He worked as a lawyer in Berlin between 1926 and 1932, and was a member of the directorate and the political secretary of the Zionist Organisation of Germany.

He made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Mandate Palestine in 1933, and the following year was one of the founders of the Rassco

Rassco

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 housing company, of which he became general director. He also became chairman of the board of directors at Bank Leumi

Bank Leumi

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.

Forder served as a delegate to the Assembly of Representatives for the New Aliyah Party

New Aliyah Party

The New Aliyah Party was a political party in Mandate Palestine and Israel.The party was established in 1942 by immigrants from Austria and Germany who had arrived in Palestine during the Fifth Aliyah. In the fourth Assembly of Representatives formed in 1944, the party had 18 seats , making it the...

. Following independence in 1948, he worked as an overseer of foodstuffs.

In the first elections in 1949

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...

 he was elected to the Knesset on the Progressive Party list (the successor to the New Aliyah Party). Although he lost his seat in the July 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 returned to the Knesset on 10 September that year as a replacement for Avraham Granot

Avraham Granot

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. He retained his seat in the 1955 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1955

Elections for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July 1955. Voter turnout was 82.8%.-Results:Mapai retained its plurality in the Knesset, although its share of the vote dropped by 5.1 and its share of seats dropped from 47 to 40...

, but resigned from the Knesset on 28 October 1957, and was replaced by Yohanan Cohen

Yohanan Cohen

-Biography:Born in Łódź , Cohen attended high school in Poland before and was active in the Zionist Youth group, before immigrating to Mandate Palestine in 1937....

. He died on 9 June 1970.

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