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Aharon Goldstein

Aharon Goldstein was an Israeli building contractor and politician who served in the Knesset for the Liberal Party and Gahal from 1963 to 1974.

1902 to 1976Liberal Party Knesset memberFounding the Goldstein Brothers companyHelping found Givatayim

Born: 19 December 1902, Zlatopil
Died: 12 October 1976, Givatayim
Occupation: politician
Party: The Israeli Liberal Party

Aharon Goldstein was born in 1902 in Zlatopil

Goldstein was born in 1902 in Zlatopol, a shtetl in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine. He studied at a heder and a high school. He was active in the Hebrew Pioneer movement.

In 1921 he moved to Palestine with his wife Miriam, his brother Shlomo and his sister-in-law Zina. He joined the Gdud HaAvoda work brigade and worked in construction. With his brother he helped found the Borochov neighborhood and Givatayim, and he also belonged to the Haganah.

From 1933 he worked as a building contractor and founded the Goldstein Brothers construction company with his brothers. In 1952 he was elected chairman of the Israel Contractors and Builders Association.

He was a founder of the Liberal Party and sat on its central committee. He did not win a seat in the 1961 elections but entered the Knesset in 1963 in place of Idov Cohen. He kept his seat in 1965 and 1969, served on the economic, labor and finance committees, and lost his seat in 1973.

He died at his home in Givatayim in 1976.