Politicsאברהם כ"ץ-עוז

Abraham Katz-Oz

Avraham Katz-Oz is an Israeli former politician of the Alignment who served in the Knesset and was Minister of Agriculture from 1988 to 1990.

born 1935Minister of Agriculture, 1988 to 1990Founding the Sapir PrizeChairing Mifal HaPaisFounding kibbutz Nahal Oz

Born: 1 January 1935, Tel Aviv
Occupation: politician, agronomist, painter
Party: Alignment
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Campus of the Hebrew University

Abraham Katz-Oz was born in 1935 in Tel Aviv

Katz-Oz was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era to Michel-Mordechai Katz and the painter Siona Tagger. He attended Tichon Hadash and the Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School.

He served in the Nahal and was among the founders of kibbutz Nahal Oz. He later studied genetics at the Hebrew University's Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot and is an agronomist by training.

At Nahal Oz he was agricultural coordinator and secretary, and from 1969 to 1973 he was secretary of Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim. He entered the Knesset in 1978 in place of Yitzhak Navon and added the name Oz to tell himself apart from Likud member Avraham Katz. He chaired the State Control Committee, served as deputy agriculture minister from 1984, and was Minister of Agriculture from 1988 until the government fell in 1990.

In 1979 he published a plan to hand the Gaza Strip to Egyptian sovereignty. He lost his seat in 1992, returned in 1995 after the death of Mordechai Gur, and resigned in 1996 to chair Mifal HaPais until 2003, where he founded the Sapir Prize. He later moved to Re'ut and chairs the Council for a Beautiful Israel.