Knesset
What was the position of Aryeh Eliav between Sep 1979 and Sep 1984?
Aryeh Eliav Aryeh Lova Eliav ( , 21 November 1921 – 30 May 2010 ) , was an Israeli politician . He served as a member of the Knesset for several factions in three spells between 1965 and 1992 . Biography . Lev Lipschitz ( later Aryeh Eliav ) was born in Moscow . His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924 . He studied history and sociology , gaining a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a teacher and sociologist . He later served as a visiting professor in several American academic institutes , including two years at Harvard University ( 1979–1980 ) and his two terms at Trinity College in the 1990s . As a teenager , he joined the Haganah in 1936 , before joining the British Army in 1940 , serving in an artillery unit . Upon his return home in 1945 he helped the Aliyah Bet movement and served as a colonel in the IDF . He later worked as an aide to Levi Eshkol on the topics of immigration , absorption and settlement . Between 1955 and 1957 he oversaw the foundation of several settlements in Lakhish Regional Council area . During the Suez Crisis he supervised Operation Tushia , which transported the Jews of Port Said to Israel . In 1958 he returned to Moscow , where he worked as the first secretary in the Israeli embassy , a position he held until 1960 . Eliav married Tania Zvi , a Holocaust survivor from Kaunas , Lithuania , who was part of a group of refugees Eliav smuggled into Palestine as the commander of an illegal immigration ship in 1947 . They had three children , Zvi , Ofra and Eyal . Political career . Eliav was first elected to the Knesset in the 1965 elections on the Alignment list , and was appointed Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry . During the Knesset term he became Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption . He retained his seat in the 1969 elections , but was not given a ministerial portfolio . However , he did become general secretary of the Labour Party until 1971 . After again retaining his seat in the 1973 elections , he left the party , first sitting as an independent MK , before joining with the Ratz faction to form Yaad – Civil Rights Movement . However , the new party split up soon after its foundation , with Eliav founding a new party , the Social-Democratic Faction together with Marcia Freedman . The new party later changed its name to Independent Socialist Faction . In the run up to the 1977 elections , he joined the Left Camp of Israel . The new party won only two seats , but a rotation agreement saw the seats shared by five people ; Eliav served the first term , before resigning from the Knesset in January 1979 to make way for Uri Avnery . In 1984 he established a personal faction that ran in the elections that year , but failed to cross the electoral threshold by around 5,000 votes . In 1987 he returned to the Labor Party . In 1987 he initiated and led a Jewish Agency project to found Nitzana , a new educational community , in the Negev desert . He served as the Head of Community until 2008 . Eliav returned to the Knesset after the 1988 elections . He served one last Knesset term and in 1992 decided not to run for a new term . Eliav died in Tel Aviv on 30 May 2010 at the age of 89 . Pioneering activity . Eliav helped to found the city of Arad in the Negev and promoted the development of Lakhish and Kiryat Gat . In the 1980s , he was the driving spirit behind the establishment of Nitzana in the western Negev , turning the sand dunes into a youth village . Awards and recognition . - In 1988 , he was awarded the Israel Prize , for special contributions to society and the State of Israel . - In 2003 , he won the Ben-Gurion Prize . Published works . Eliav published 15 books , including : - Between Hammer and Sickle ( 1965 ) - The Voyage of the Ulua ( 1967 ) - New targets for Israel ( 1969 ) - The Short Cut ( 1970 ) - Land of the Hart ( 1972 ) - Shalom : Peace in Jewish Tradition ( 1977 ) - Autobiography : Rings of Dawn ( 1984 ) - New Heart , New Spirit : Biblical Humanism for Modern Israel ( 1986 ) - On Both Sides of the New-Comers Camp : an Intimate Dialogue on Israeli Identity ( 2006 ) – with co-author Yossi Alfi