Haim Corfu
Israeli politician (1921–2015)
Haim Corfu
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Ministerial roles | |
1981–1988 | Minister of Transportation |
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1969–1974 | Gahal |
1974–1992 | Likud |
Personal details | |
Born |
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1921-01-06
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6 January 1921
Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine |
Died | 23 February 2015 (2015-02-23) (aged 94) |
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Haim Corfu ( Hebrew : חיים קורפו ; 6 January 1921 – 23 February 2015) was an Israeli politician , and earlier Irgun member and assassin.
Biography
Corfu was born in Jerusalem in 1921. He studied in religious schools and yeshivas and attended a religious teachers seminary. In 1937 he joined the Irgun and was a member of the Irgun command in Jerusalem. During that time he also played as a striker for Beitar Jerusalem . [1] He used his training as an electrician to design explosives. He was responsible for the assassinations of CID officers Ralph Cairns and Ronald Barker. Corfu, observing the two while hiding behind a stonemason's shack, pressed the detonator of the remotely-controlled mine that killed them. [2] He was in charge of mining the income tax offices on 26 February 1944. [3] He was subsequently interned in Sudan and Kenya by the British, where he also put his skills as an electrician to use in an attempt to escape. [4]
After the establishment of the State of Israel he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer. From 1967 to 1969 he was a member of the Jerusalem city council. In 1969, he was elected to the seventh Knesset for Gahal , and was subsequently elected to the eighth through twelfth Knessets for Likud . In the seventh and eighth Knessets he was a member of the finance committee and in the eighth he was also a member of the subcommittee for the defense budget. In the ninth and twelfth Knessets he was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and in the twelfth he was the chairman of the house committee. [5]
Between 1981 and 1988 he served as transportation minister , supporting the consolidation of Israel Railways with the Ports Authority. [6]
In 1986, he was invited to attend a transportation convention in Morocco and thus became the first Israeli cabinet member to be asked to attend a conference in an Arab country other than Egypt . [7] In 1987, he voted for a bill to grant a blanket amnesty to the Jewish Underground prisoners. [8] In April 1992 he resigned from the Knesset to become chairman of the Israeli Airports Authority , a position he held until 1996.
References
- ↑ Dayan, Shai. "Team history" . Betar.net (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 18 November 2007 . Retrieved 28 February 2015 .
- ↑ Golan, Zev (2003). Free Jerusalem: Heroes, Heroines and Rogues Who Created the State of Israel . Devora Publishing. pp. 136–137. ISBN 1-930143-54-0 .
- ↑ Lapidot, Yehuda. "The beginning" . Daat (in Hebrew) . Retrieved 28 February 2015 .
- ↑ Lapidot, Yehuda. "The Latrun detention camp" . Daat (in Hebrew) . Retrieved 28 February 2015 .
- ↑ "חבר הכנסת חיים קורפו" . Knesset (in Hebrew) . Retrieved 2022-11-06 .
- ↑ Etzioni, Amir. "Reforming Israel's seaports" (PDF) . Policy Studies (41). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 15, 2000 . Retrieved 28 February 2015 .
- ↑ Mahler, Gregory S. (1990). Israel after Begin . SUNY Press. p. 165. ISBN 0-7914-0367-X .
- ↑ Lustick, Ian (1988). For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel . Council on Foreign Relations. p. 11 . ISBN 0-87609-036-6 .
External links
- Haim Corfu on the Knesset website
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