11 Facts About Yosef Burg

Shlomo Joseph Burg was a German-born Israeli politician.

Yosef Burg was one of the founders of the National Religious Party.

Shlomo Yosef Burg was born in Dresden, Germany, on 31 January 1909.

Yosef Burg attended the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin from 1928 to 1938, and was ordained as a rabbi that year.

Yosef Burg studied at the University of Berlin from 1928 to 1931, and received a Doctorate in mathematics and logic from the University of Leipzig in 1933.

Yosef Burg arranged Jewish prayer services in private homes after German synagogues were burned, and worked underground to help Jews escape to Britain and the Netherlands.

Yosef Burg worked as teacher at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium - where he taught religion wearing a kippa, which he would remove when teaching history - before moving to Jerusalem.

Yosef Burg was married to Rivka Slonim, who was born in Hebron and survived the 1929 Hebron massacre.

Yosef Burg died on 15 October 1999 at the age of 90 at the Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center.

The group won 16 seats and Yosef Burg took a seat in the Knesset, becoming deputy speaker.

Yosef Burg remained in the Knesset and became minister of health in the third government.