Shalom-Avraham Shaki was an Israel

Israel

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i politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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 for the National Religious Party

National Religious Party

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 between 1962 and 1965.

Biography

Born in Yemen

Yemen

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 in the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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, Shaki made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Palestine in 1914. He was educated at a religious school and college, before attending a religious teachers' seminary. He also studied at the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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.

In 1929 he began working as a teacher in Hadera

Hadera

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, before switching to Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 the following year, where he worked until 1951. Between 1950 and 1951 he was headmaster of a religious school in a Yemenite ma'abara

Ma'abarot

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 in Ein Shemer

Ein Shemer

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. From 1952 until 1963 he was headmaster of a school in Bnei Brak.

A member of Hapoel HaMizrachi

Hapoel HaMizrachi

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 and, from 1956, the National Religious Party, Shaki was on the party's list for the 1961 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1961

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. Although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 8 November 1962 as a replacement for the deceased Mordechai Nurock

Mordechai Nurock

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. However, he lost his seat in the 1965 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1965

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.

His niece, Tehila, is the wife of Breslov

Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)

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 rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva

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 Eliezer Berland

Eliezer Berland

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. He died in 1990.

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