Baruch Osnia Explained

Birth Date:19 September 1905
Birth Place:Pinsk, Russian Empire
Office1:Faction represented in the Knesset
Subterm1:1951–1965
Suboffice1:Mapai
Subterm2:1965–1968
Suboffice2:Alignment
Subterm3:1968–1969
Suboffice3:Labor Party
Subterm4:1969
Suboffice4:Alignment

Baruch Osnia (19 September 1905 – 6 July 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1951 and 1969.

Biography

Osnia was born Baruch Eisenstadt in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to Samuel Eisenstadt and Zipora Finfelstein. He was educated at a heder and a high school in Danzig (now Gdańsk), before studying at the University of Königsberg. He returned to Danzig to work as a lawyer and was a member of Habonim. In 1929, he became secretary of the central committee of the German branch of Poale Zion.

In 1933, Osnia made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine and was a high school teacher in kibbutz Givat Haim. He was on the Mapai list for the 1949 elections, but did not win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 12 February 1951 as a replacement for Abba Hushi,[1] who had resigned. He retained his seat in the July 1951 elections, and was re-elected in 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965, by which time Mapai had formed the Alignment alliance. He lost his seat in the 1969 elections.

He died in 1994.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexByKnesset_eng.asp?knesset=1 Knesset Members in the First Knesset