Avraham Agmon

Avraham Agmon was born in 1928 in Białystok

Avraham Agmon was born in 1928 in Białystok, Poland. During World War II he stayed in the Soviet Union. In 1947 he sailed to the Land of Israel on the immigrant ship Moledet, which the British seized, and he was wounded and hospitalized in Haifa.

In the War of Independence he served in Battalion 50 of the Givati Brigade and was wounded again in fighting in the Negev. After his release in 1950 he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He joined Mapai and chaired the national student union in 1953 and 1954.

In 1956 he became Second Secretary at the embassy in Moscow and worked with Nativ to help Soviet Jews. He later handled defense budgets at the Ministry of Finance and served as First Secretary in Poland and in Moscow until 1964. He headed the Budgets Directorate from 1968 and was Director General of the Ministry of Finance from 1970 to 1975.

From 1976 until his death in 1992 he was head of Delek, where he founded its car import business. He was a member of the Labor Party central committee and chaired bodies at several universities, Habima and the Israel Management Center. He was married to Dvora and had 2 sons.