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| '''Yosef Shlomo Burg''' ({{lang-he|יוסף שלמה בורג}}, born 31 January 1909, died 15 October 1999) was an ]i politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first ], and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the .<ref></ref> | '''Yosef Shlomo Burg''' ({{lang-he|יוסף שלמה בורג}}, born 31 January 1909, died 15 October 1999) was an ]i politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first ], and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the ].<ref></ref> | ||
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Template:Infobox member of the Knesset Yosef Shlomo Burg (Template:Lang-he, born 31 January 1909, died 15 October 1999) was an Israeli politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset, and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the National Religious Party.
Biography
Yosef Shlomo Burg was born in Dresden, Germany. He attended the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin and the University of Berlin from 1928 to 1931. He received a Doctorate in mathematics and logic from the University of Leipzig in 1933. He continued to study at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin and was ordained as a rabbi in 1938.
While at the University of Leipzig, he joined the Young Mizrahi religious Zionist movement. He arranged Jewish prayer services in private homes after German synagogues were burned, and worked underground to help Jews escape to England and the Netherlands. His mother and grandmother died in Nazi concentration camps.
In 1939, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine. He worked as teacher at Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv before moving to Jerusalem. There he become a research fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Burg lived in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. His son, Avraham Burg, was speaker of the fifteenth Knesset.
Burg died on October 15, 1999 at the age of 90 at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Political career
In Israel, Burg joined Hapoel HaMizrachi, a religious-Zionist party. Alongside three other religious parties, Hapoel HaMizrachi ran on a joint list called the United Religious Front for the first Knesset elections in 1949. The group won 16 seats and Burg took a seat in the Knesset, becoming Deputy Speaker.
In the 1951 elections the party ran by itself, winning eight seats. Burg remained in the Knesset and became Minister of Health in the third government. In the fourth, fifth and sixth governments he served as Minister of Postal Services, a position he retained until 1958.
In 1956 Hapoel HaMizrachi merged with their ideological twins from the Mizrachi party to form the National Religious Party (NRP). The party was a member of all governments until 1992, and as a key party member, Burg maintained a ministerial position in every Knesset until his resignation from the Knesset in 1986, holding the positions of Minister of Welfare, Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister without Portfolio and Minister of Religious Affairs.
In 1977, he became the President of the World Mizrachi Movement.
Burg was famous for his erudite wit. Journalists dubbed his appearances in parliament "Burgtheater," after the famous playhouse in Vienna.
Legacy
According to Shimon Peres, Burg's most important legacy was trying to bridge the gulf between religious and secular Jews: "He was a religious man but he believed in compromise." Ehud Barak said Burg took the path of moderation and tolerance, and showed a love for Jewish tradition.
References
- Yosef Burg: Israeli Founding Father
- Yosef Burg: Israeli Founding Father
- "Yosef Burg". The State of Israel. Retrieved July 29, 2005.
- Yosef Burg: Israeli Founding Father
- Salad Days, Haaretz
- Yosef Burg: Israeli Founding Father
- Yosef Burg: Israeli Founding Father
- Yosef Burg: Israeli Founding Father
External links
- Yosef Burg on the Knesset website
- Yosef Burg's biography Knesset website Template:En icon
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