- Aharon Uzan
MKs
Date of birth =1 November 1924
Place of birth =Tunisia
Year of Aliyah = 1949
Date of death =23 January 2007
Place of death =
Knesset(s) = 6th, 10th
Party =Tami
Former parties = Alignment
Gov't roles = Minister of Communications
Minister of Agriculture
Minister of Immigrant Absorption
Minister of Labor and Social Welfare|Aharon Uzan ( _he. אהרן אוזן, born
1 November 1924 , died23 January 2007 ) was anIsrael i politician who held several ministerial portfolios between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s.Biography
Uzan was born in
Tunisia , and was a member of the right-wingBetar movement in his youth. He madealiyah toIsrael in 1949 and joined the left-wingMapai party. He settled inGilat , serving as themoshav 's secretary and treasurer between 1952-59. In 1960 he founded theNegev Moshav Purchashing Company, and managed it until 1968. He also founded the Negev Water and Merhav transport companies.In 1965 he was elected to the
Knesset on the Alignment's list (the Alignment was an Alliance of Mapai andAhdut HaAvoda ), and was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture in January 1966, a role he held until he lost his seat in the 1969 elections.Between 1970 and 1973 he was secretary of the
Moshavim Movement . Despite not being a Knesset member, he returned to the cabinet in 1974 when he was appointed Minister of Communications. AfterGolda Meir resigned andYitzhak Rabin formed a new government later in the year, he became Minister of Agriculture. In March 1975 he regained the Communications portfolio in addition to the Agriculture post. FollowingLikud 's victory in the 1977 elections he lost his cabinet position.In 1981 he left Mapai to found the new
Tami party alongsideAharon Abuhatzira . The party won three seats and was included inMenachem Begin 's government. Uzan was made Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption in July that year. In May 1982 he became both Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Labor and Social Welfare after Abuhatzira resigned from both posts following his conviction for larceny, breach of trust and fraud. [ [http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/Vol_84__1984.pdf American Jewish Yearbook 1984] p66] He held both posts until the 1984 elections, in which he lost his seat.References
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