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Career Synopsis

Meridor was born in Poland in 1913, to a family of middle-class merchants. After hearing reports of the first Arab rebellion in Mandate Palestine, he became a member of the Betar Movement in 1930, where he received his first military training. He also studied Law at the University of Warsaw. Flag Britain unilaterally closed the territory east of the Jordan River (Transjordan) to Jewish settlement and organized Transjordan as an autonomous state in 1923. ... The Betar Movement (ביתר, also spelled Beitar) is a youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky. ... University of Warsaw (Polish: ) is the largest university in Poland. ...

He emigrated to Palestine in 1932, and joined the Irgun a year later. In 1941 he accompanied David Raziel on a mission to Iraq in order to sabotage oil fields on the outskirts of Baghdad. When Raziel was killed along with a British officer, Meridor returned to Palestine and took over as Chief Commander of the Irgun. Irgun emblem. ... David Raziel (December 19, 1910 - May 17, 1941) was a Jewish freedom fighter during the British Mandate of Palestine, and one of the founders of the Irgun. ...

In 1943, Meridor relinquished command of the Irgun to Menachem Begin, but held senior positions in the Irgun until the Haganah handed him over to the British in 1945. He was sent to various detention camps in Africa, and carried out daring escape attempts, finally succeeding in 1948 and arriving in Israel on the day independence was declared.   (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. ... Haganah Poster (1940s) The Haganah (Hebrew: The Defense, ×”×”×’× ×”) was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948. ...

Post-independence

Under Begin he was charged with the task of managing the Irgun's integration in the newly-formed Israeli Defense Forces. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces...

In the political sphere Meridor was one of the founders of Herut and was elected to the Knesset in Israel's first elections. He retained his seat in elections in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1961 and again in 1965 after Herut had merged with the Liberal Party to form Gahal (which later became Likud). He also published a book in 1955, entitled Long is the Path to Freedom: Chronicles of one of the Exiles. However, he lost his seat in the 1969 elections. Herut (Hebrew: חרות Freedom) was the political party of the Revisionist Zionist movement in Israel. ... The modern Knesset building, Israels parliament, in Jerusalem Though similar-sounding, Beit Knesset (בית כנסת) literally means House of Assembly, and refers to a synagogue. ... The Elections for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly-independent Israel on 25 January, 1949. ... The Israeli Liberal Party (Hebrew: מפלגה ליברלית ישראלית, Miflega Libralit Yisraelit) was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud. ... Gahal (acronym for Gush Herut-Liberalim) is a right-wing Zionist party formed in 1965 by members of the Herut and Liberal parties. ... Likud (Hebrew: ליכוד, literally means consolidation) is a centre-right political party in Israel. ... The Elections for the seventh Knesset were held on 28 October, 1969. ...

Meridor resurrected his political career in 1981 when he was elected to the Knesset on Likud's list. Despite his pre-election embarrassment at falling prey to the Bulb to light all Ramat Gan hoax, he was appointed Minister of Economics and Inter-Ministry Coordination by Prime Minister Begin. He retained his ministerial position when Yitzhak Shamir took over from Begin in 1983. The Prime Minister of Israel (Hebrew: ראש הממשלה, Rosh HaMemshala, lit. ...   (Hebrew יִצְחָק שָׁמִיר) (born October 15, 1915) was Prime Minister of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. ...

Despite his high rank within the government, Meridor lost his seat again in the 1984 elections, and did not return to the Knesset. Elections for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July, 1984. ...

References

• http://www.etzel.org.il/english/people/meridor.htm
• MERIP Middle East Report, No. 142, Wealth and Power in the Middle East (Sep. - Oct., 1986), pp. 36-38

External link

• Yaakov Meridor on the official Knesset website (in English)