Heshel Frumkin
Heshel Frumkin | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | Mapai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1896 |
| Died | 11 April 1974 (aged 77–78) |
Heshel Frumkin (Hebrew: הֶשֶל פְרוּמְקִין; 1896 –11 April 1974) was an Israeli economist and politician.
Biography
Born in Babruysk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Frumkin was educated in a heder and yeshiva, and was a member of Tzeiri Zion and HeHalutz during his youth.[1] In 1920 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he was amongst the founders of the Histadrut trade union.[1] He became a member of kibbutz Degania Bet and worked in road construction.[1]
He helped establish the Office of Public Works, which later became Solel Boneh, and was one of its managers.[1] In 1933 he became a member of the Histadrut's executive committee, and was responsible for its economics department. He also served as an economic advisor to the Histadrut leadership.[1]
In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset on Mapai's list.[1] However, he resigned his seat on 5 February 1951, and was replaced by Jenia Tversky.[2] In 1953 he established the Economics Quarterly journal, and edited it until 1974, the year in which he died.[1]
He published two books, Economic Preparedness in 1943, and Immigration and Development on the way to the State in 1971.[1]
References
External links
- Heshel Frumkin on the Knesset website
- Israeli politician stubs
- Asian economist stubs
- Israeli academic biography stubs
- 1896 births
- 1974 deaths
- People from Babruysk
- People from Minsk Governorate
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Belarusian Jews
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli economists
- Mapai politicians
- Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951)
- Immigrants of the Third Aliyah
- 20th-century Israeli trade unionists