Avraham Shekhterman

Avraham Shekhterman was born in 1910 in Odesa

Shekhterman was born in Odesa in 1910. His father, Zvi Shekhterman, was a public activist and a leader of the Mizrachi movement. He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1924 and studied at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv.

He joined Betar in 1927. He studied civil engineering at Ghent University in Belgium, where he chaired the Jewish students' organization and taught at the Betar branch in Antwerp.

He helped settle Kfar Yavetz from 1932. In 1938 he became political editor of the newspaper HaMashkif. He worked to set up a flight school in 1939, chaired the Tel Aviv Pilots Club from 1939 to 1945, and managed the Dead Sea potash works from 1943 to 1946.

He sat on the Tel Aviv city council from 1955 to 1965 and was deputy mayor from 1957 to 1959, working on the restoration of Old Jaffa. He entered the Knesset in 1969 and lost his seat in 1977. He chaired the Economic Affairs Committee and later the Education Committee.

His first wife, Sarah, was killed in a plane crash in 1948, and he remarried in 1962. He died in December 1986 and was buried in Kiryat Shaul. His younger brother was IDF general Herzl Shafir.