Yosef Efrati

Yosef Efrati (Hebrew: יוסף אפרתי‎, born 19 February 1897, died 8 February 1975) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1965.

Biography

Born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Efrati received his primary education in a heder. He made aliyah to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1914, and studied at an agricultural high school in Petah Tikva. In 1917, he joined the group that settled Be'er Tuvia. Between 1923 and 1925 he worked at an agricultural research station at Ben Shemen and moved to kibbutz Geva in 1925.

Efrati was a member of Hapoel Hatzair, and later Mapai, as well as being one of the leaders of HaMerkaz HaHakla'i. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset on the Mapai list. He was re-elected in 1951, and on 9 July 1952 was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the third government. He was re-elected again in 1955, 1959 and 1961, before losing his seat in the 1965 elections. He died in 1975 at the age of 77.

Knessets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Faction represented in Knesset: 1949–1965 Mapai