Baruch Osnia

Baruch Osnia (Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ אָזְנִיָּה, born Baruch Eisenstadt (אַייְזֶנְשְׁטַדְט) on 19 September 1905, died 6 July 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1951 and 1969.

Osnia was born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to Samuel Eisenstadt and Zipora Finfelstein. He was educated at a heder and a high school in Danzig (now Gdańsk), before studying at the University of Königsberg. He returned to Danzig to work as a lawyer and was a member of Habonim. In 1929, he became secretary of the central committee of the German branch of Poale Zion.

In 1933, Osnia made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine and was a high school teacher in kibbutz Givat Haim. He was on the Mapai list for the 1949 elections, but did not win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 12 February 1951 as a replacement for Abba Hushi, who had resigned. He retained his seat in the July 1951 elections, and was re-elected in 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965, by which time Mapai had formed the Alignment alliance. He lost his seat in the 1969 elections.

He died in 1994.

Knessets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Faction represented in Knesset:

• 1951–1965 Mapai
• 1965–1968 Alignment
• 1968–1969 Labor Party
• 1969 Alignment