Shalom Levin

Dr Shalom Levin (Hebrew: שלום לוין‎, (1916-03-27)27 March 1916 – (1995-04-14)14 April 1995) was an Israeli teacher and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1977.

Shalom Levin
Date of birth(1916-03-27)27 March 1916 [1]
Place of birthRakaw, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah1937
Date of death14 April 1995(1995-04-14) (aged 79)
Knessets7, 8
Faction represented in Knesset
1969–1977Alignment (Israel Labor Party and Mapam)

Biography

Born in Rakaw near Minsk in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), Levin studied at the Tarbut Teachers Seminary in Vilnius, and was a member of the Jewish HeHalutz movement in Poland.

In 1937 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. In 1952 he got an MA degree in bible, literature and the history of Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning there a PhD in philosophy of education in 1976. He served as general secretary of the Israel Teachers Union between 1955 and 1980, when he became its president until his death in 1995. Between 1963 and 1968 he also served as president of the International Federation of Teachers' Associations.[2]

A member of the central committee and secretariat of Mapai, he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list in 1969, and was re-elected in 1973. He was not included in the Alignment list in the 1977 elections,when the Likkud party defeated the Alignment and took over the government, and served as a member of the Histadrut's organising committee between 1977 and 1981.

He died in 1995.

gollark: Approval voting is cool and good™ and pretty simple, so is score voting.
gollark: The electoral college also somewhat encourages first past the post-type stuff, which is just an awful voting system.
gollark: I'm already most of the way there, clearly.
gollark: Or I should just be supreme dictator for life, then made immortal and supreme dictator for eternity.
gollark: To stop tyranny of the majority, elections should be decided entirely randomly.

References
  1. ראשונים ופורצי דרך במשפחתי Rav Dori
  2. Shalom Levin: Public Activities Knesset website
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