Yosef Sapir was an Israel

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i politician and Knesset

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 member of the 1st to 7th Knessets. He served as head of the General Zionists

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 and was a founding member of the Gahal

Gahal

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 party.

Sapir was born in Jaffa

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 in 1902, during Ottoman period

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. Between 1940 and 1951, he served as the mayor of Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva

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, where a major street (part of Road 481) has been named after him. Shortly after his tenure, Sapir joined the national government at the end of 1952 as the Health Minister

Health Minister of Israel

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 and went on to become the Minister of Transportation in 1953 until 1955.

In Levi Eshkol

Levi Eshkol

' served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office.-Biography:...

's emergency government formed on the eve of the Six-Day War

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, Sapir served as a Minister without Portfolio

Minister without Portfolio

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 and assumed the post of Minister of Trade and Industry

Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel

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 in Golda Meir

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Golda Meir ; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel....

's government, until Gahal left the coalition on August 6, 1970.

Karmei Yosef

Karmei Yosef

Karmei Yosef is a communal settlement in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah between Ramle and Rehovot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 1,800....

, a communal settlement

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 founded in 1984 between Ramle and Beit Shemesh, was named in his honor.

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