Abba Hushi

Abba Hushi was born in 1898 in Turkah (today in Ukraine) as Abba Shneler to a Jewish family. Abba was one of the founders and activists of Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland.

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In July 1920 he came to the British Mandate of Palestine as part of a group of 130 "pioneers". He worked in road construction and swamp draining and was one of founders of Kibbutz Beit Alpha. He also participated in the Founding Convention of the Histadrut.

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In 1927 he moved to Haifa and became a member of Achdut HaAvoda political party and afterwards a member of Mapai, and a central figure in both. He was the Secretary of the Haifa Workers Council between 1931-1951.

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In the State of Israel Abba Hushi was a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1951, when he resigned to become mayor of Haifa. As mayor, he founded the University of Haifa, the Haifa Theatre, the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, and the Carmelit (Haifa's subway). He served as a mayor of Haifa between 1951-1969. He died in March 24 1969.

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Abba Hushi is the father-in-law of another member of the Knesset - Amnon Linn.

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1898: 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar)....

Jew: The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes....

Hashomer Hatzair: Hashomer Hatzair (or Hashomer Hatsair or HaShomer HaTzair) (Hebrew: "The Young Guard" or "Guardian Young") is a Zionist-socialist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia (now in Poland) and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...

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