From 1955 to 1977 he was a member of the Knesset, initially in the Ahdut ha-Avodah (Unity of Labour) party and later in the Labour Party. He served several terms as Transport Minister.
MosheCarmel, who led the fledgling Israeli army's capture of Haifa and the northern Galilee region during the 1948-49 Mideast war, has died in Tel Aviv at 92.
He was born in Minsk in what was then Poland, in modern-day Belarus, and moved to British Mandatory Palestine in 1924 at the age of 13.
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