Haim Ariav was an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...

 for the General Zionists

General Zionists

The General Zionists were centrists within the Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud.-History:...

 between 1951 and 1957.

Biography

Born in Lida

Lida

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 in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (today in Hrodna Voblast

Hrodna Voblast

Hrodna Voblast or Grodno Oblast is a voblast in northwestern Belarus.The capital - Grodno is the biggest city of the province. It lies on the Neman River. Grodno's existence is attested to from 1127. Two castles dating from the 14th - 18th centuries are located here on the steep right bank of...

, Belarus

Belarus

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), Ariav was educated in a heder and a Russian primary school. He made aliyah to Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

-controlled Palestine in 1912 and finished his secondary education at the Herzliya Hebrew High School

Herzliya Hebrew High School

The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium , originally known as HaGymnasia HaIvrit is a historic high school in Tel Aviv, Israel.-History:...

. He went on to study jurisprudence at the Jerusalem Jurisprudence School, and was certified as a lawyer.

He volunteered for the Ottoman Army, and attended officers training school in Istanbul

Istanbul

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. He later taught at a military school in Damascus

Damascus

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 and worked as a translator. After the Nili

Nili

Nili of Israel will not lie") was a Jewish espionage network which assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine during World War I.-Establishment:...

 group was discovered he was arrested and sent to Istanbul, though he was later released and sent to the Caucasus

Caucasus

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 front to be an officer and translator.

After the war he worked in the secretariat of the Delegates Committee, and became its general secretary. In 1929 he was appointed general secretary of the Jerusalem branch of the Jewish Agency

Jewish Agency for Israel

The Jewish Agency for Israel , also known as the Sochnut or JAFI, served as the organization in charge of immigration and absorption of Jews from the Diaspora into the state of Israel.-History:...

, where he worked until 1931. A secretary of the Hitahdut HaIkarim

Hitahdut HaIkarim

The Hitahdut HaIkarim is a settlement movement for private farmers in Israel.The Hitahdut HaMoshavot BeYehuda VeShomron was founded in Yavne'el in 1920, making it the oldest agricultural organisation in Israel. In 1927 it was expanded and renamed Hitahdut HaIkarim BeEretz Israel . After Israeli...

, in 1934 he founded the Society for Local Councils. He was also amongst the founders and directors of the HaBoker

HaBoker

HaBoker was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper in Mandate Palestine and Israel associated with the General Zionists.The paper was established in 1935 by the right-wing of the General Zionists, with the first edition published on 11 October that year...

newspaper.

A member of the executive committee of the Union of General Zionists, he was elected to the Knesset in 1951

Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July 1951. Voter turnout was 75.1%.-Results:¹ Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh left Mapam and set up the Left Faction. Bastuni later returned to Mapam whilst Berman and Sneh joined Maki. Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz left...

 on the General Zionists' list. He was re-elected in 1955

Israeli legislative election, 1955

Elections for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July 1955. Voter turnout was 82.8%.-Results:Mapai retained its plurality in the Knesset, although its share of the vote dropped by 5.1 and its share of seats dropped from 47 to 40...

, and died in 1957 whilst still serving as an MK. His seat was taken by Ya'akov Klivnov

Ya'akov Klivnov

Ya'akov Klivnov was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists from 1949 until 1955, and again from 1955 until 1957.-Biography:...

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