13 Facts About Yosef Serlin

Yosef Serlin was a Zionist activist, lawyer and Israeli politician.

Yosef Serlin studied law at the University of Warsaw and was certified as a lawyer in 1929.

Yosef Serlin was active in the Zionist Movement in Poland and was chairman of the Federation of Academic Zionists in Warsaw.

Yosef Serlin was made personal secretary to Nahum Sokolow in 1930.

Yosef Serlin was a member of the Central Committee of Radical Zionists in Poland.

Yosef Serlin was one of the founders of the General Zionists and later deputy chairman of the World Confederation of General Zionists Association.

Yosef Serlin was a member of the Zionist Actions Committee.

Yosef Serlin was then elected to the first through fourth Knessets for the General Zionists.

Yosef Serlin was a member of the House, Labor, Constitution, Law and Justice, Economic Affairs, and Finance Committees.

Yosef Serlin was deputy Speaker of the Knesset in the 5th and 6th Knesset.

Yosef Serlin sought to strengthen the national control over the health system at the expense of the Israel's sick funds.

Yosef Serlin was a hawkish minister, and Moshe Sharett wrote in his diary that Serlin had asked him in 1954 to attack the Gaza Strip in reprisal to the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgencies.

Yosef Serlin died in 1974, streets in Tel Aviv and Holon are named after him.