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Yitzhak Rafael was born on 5 July, 1914 in Sasiv, Austria-Hungary, is an Israeli politician. Discover Yitzhak Rafael's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 5 July, 1914
Birthday 5 July
Birthplace Sasiv, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 3 August, 1999
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Nationality Hungary

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1914

Yitzhak Rafael (יצחק רפאל, 5 July 1914 – 3 August 1999) was an Israeli politician.

Yitzhak Rafael was born in Sasiv in Galicia in 1914 at a time when the town was part of Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine), and attended high school in Poland.

During his youth he was a member of the Torah and Work youth movement, and founded a local branch of the Bnei Akiva youth movement.

1935

He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935 and worked as a teacher in Jerusalem.

He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an MA in Humanities.

He went on to study at the New York Theological Seminary, where he was awarded a doctorate in literature.

Rafael was married to Geula, daughter of Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israel's first Minister of Religious Affairs.

He worked for the Jewish Agency and was director of the department of Craftsman and Small Business.

1940

Between 1940 and 1947, he edited a small journal.

1944

He was a member of the Hagana and represented Hapoel HaMizrachi in the Assembly of Representatives in 1944.

1948

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he was a member of the Jerusalem Emergency Committee.

Between 1948 and 1953, he was a member of the Jewish Agency's board, and headed its aliyah department, where he was responsible for the large influx of Jewish refugees (numbering over 685,000 between 1948 and 1951), rejecting calls to put a limit on numbers.

1951

In 1951, he was elected to the Knesset on the Hapoel HaMizrachi list.

1955

He was re-elected in 1955, 1959 (by which time Hapoel HaMizrachi had merged into the National Religious Party) and 1961.

1960

He served as Deputy Minister of Health in the 1960s and Minister of Religions in the mid-1970s.

1961

In November 1961 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health, serving until David Ben-Gurion resigned as Prime Minister in June 1963.

1963

He was re-appointed to the post in July 1963, serving until March 1965.

1965

He was re-elected in 1965 and 1969, and following Haim-Moshe Shapira's death in July 1970, became the leader of the NRP.

1973

He was re-elected again in 1973, and was appointed Minister of Religions by Golda Meir in March 1974.

1974

However, when Yitzhak Rabin formed a new government in June 1974 following Meir's resignation, the NRP were not included in the coalition and Rafael left the cabinet.

1976

When the party joined the coalition in October that year, Rafael was re-appointed Minister of Religions, serving until all NRP ministers were sacked in December 1976 for abstaining in a motion of no confidence vote.

In the same year he lost the party leadership when Zevulun Hammer and Yosef Burg combined forces to oust him.

1977

He lost his seat in the 1977 elections and retired from politics.

1979

In 1979, Rafael was the co-recipient (with Yehuda Ratzaby) of the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought.