Meir Talmi

Meir Talmi (Hebrew: מאיר תלמי‎, born 1909, died 18 November 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment and Mapam between 1974 and 1981.

Meir Talmi
Date of birth	1909
Place of birth	Warsaw, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah	1932
Date of death	18 November 1994
Knessets	8
Faction represented in Knesset
1974–1977	Alignment
1977	Mapam
1977–1981	Alignment

Biography

Born in Warsaw in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Talmi joined Hashomer Hatzair during his youth, and was a member of the national leadership in Poland. He met his wife Emma Levine, later also a Knesset member, when she visited Poland as an emissary of the movement. They later had three children, Yigal (born 1934), Yehuda (1940) and Binyamin (1946).[1]

In 1932 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, and the following year became a member of kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. He started working in the Kibbutz Artzi movement, later becoming its secretary. He also joined Mapam, also serving as the party's secretary general.

In 1973 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, an alliance of Mapam and the Labor Party. On 10 April 1977 Mapam broke away from the Alignment, but rejoined two days later.[2] Talmi was re-elected in 1977 on the Alignment list, but lost his seat in the 1981 elections.

He died in 1994.

References

1. Emma Levine-Talmi Jewish Women's Archive
2. Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset website

External links

• Meir Talmi on the Knesset website