Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat

Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat was born in 1912 in Kielce

Goldrat was born in 1912 in Kielce, the son of rabbi and author Yissachar Goldrat. He studied under the Rebbe of Ostrowiec and was ordained as a rabbi in 1930. He led the Youth of Agudat Yisrael in Kielce.

He later worked in Warsaw as a journalist for the newspaper Der Yud. In 1933 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. In 1943 he helped found the Non-Partisan Religious Union, and he became secretary of Poalei Agudat Yisrael and edited Sha'arim and HaYesod.

In 1949 he was elected to the Knesset for the United Religious Front and sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense, Interior, and Labor committees. After the 1951 elections he disputed a rotation agreement with Kalman Kahana, and a party committee decided Kahana would keep the seat. He then led an internal opposition in the party.

In 1956 he joined Hapoel HaMizrachi and was elected to the executive committee of the National Religious Party, heading its propaganda department. From 1967 he directed the Rambam Library in Tel Aviv until his death in 1973. He was the father of Eliyahu M. Goldratt.