Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Impressive Memorial Services for Moshe Sharett Held in New York
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Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in the cease-fire agreements that concluded the 1948 Palestine war. Beginning in 1933, he headed the political department of the Jewish Agency. He also founded the Jewish Brigad…
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politics · Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 · politician · diplomat · translator · Zionist · also Moshe Sharett, Sharett
Born 16 October 1894 · Died 7 July 1965 · Q208477
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2025· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Moshe Sharett Dies in Jerusalem; Body Laid in State; Funeral Tomorrow
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2007· 1 entry
The Moshe Sharett Heritage Society, the foundation that Yaakov established to care for Sharett's legacy, discovered a file of thousands of passages that had been omitted from the published edition
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1998· 1 entry
The bill went through a graphic revision, with the list of Sharett's books on the front side being replaced by part of his 1949 speech to the UN
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1978· 1 entry
Have proved to be an important source for Israeli history
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1965· 2 entries
Died 1965-07-07.
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And was buried in Tel Aviv's Trumpeldor Cemetery
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1961· 1 entry
Career landmark: Knesset member (1961–1965).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Sokolov Award (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Career landmark: Knesset member (1959–1961).
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1955· 1 entry
Career landmark: Knesset member (1955–1959).
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1954· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Israel (1954–1955).
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Three cells of local Jews living in Egypt, and one from Israel proper, were activated as terror groups to commit sabotage in Alexandria and Cairo on the orders of a secretive Unit 131 of Israeli Intelligence
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1953· 1 entry
And Sharett was chosen by the party to take his place
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1952· 1 entry
In an attempt to improve relations with the Holy See, although this was to no avail
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1951· 1 entry
Career landmark: Knesset member (1951–1955).
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1949· 2 entries
Career landmark: Knesset member (1949–1951).
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And served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
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1948· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel (1948–1956).
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1933· 1 entry
Headed the political department of the Jewish Agency
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1931· 1 entry
After returning to Mandatory Palestine, he became the secretary of the Jewish Agency's political department
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1922· 2 entries
Sharett married Tzippora Meirov, with whom he had two sons, Ya'akov and Haim, and a daughter, Yael
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Attended the London School of Economics, worked for the British Poale Zion and actively edited the Workers of Zion
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1910· 1 entry
His family moved to Jaffa, then became one of the founding families of Tel Aviv
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1906· 1 entry
The Chertok family immigrated to Ottoman Palestine
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-10-16.
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