Politicsאברהם יצחק שטרן

Avraham Yitzchak Stern

Avraham Yitzchak Stern was an Israeli politician who served as a Knesset member for the National Religious Party from 1996 to 1997.

1935 to 1997Secretary General of Bnei AkivaNational Religious Party Knesset memberPolitical Secretary of Religious Kibbutz Movement

Born: 30 October 1935, Haifa
Died: 12 May 1997, Israel
Occupation: politician
Party: National Religious Party
Education: University of Haifa

Avraham Yitzchak Stern was born in 1935 in Haifa

Avraham Yitzchak Stern was born in Haifa in 1935. He was named after Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, who had died 2 months earlier. He studied at the Yavne school in Haifa and then at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar HaRoeh.

He joined the IDF in 1953 and served in a religious Nahal group. He later earned a bachelor's degree in education and management at the University of Haifa.

He held several roles in the Bnei Akiva youth movement and became its Secretary General. For many years he was Political Secretary of the Religious Kibbutz Movement and Deputy Chairman of the National Religious Party bureau.

In 1996 he was elected to the 14th Knesset, where he represented the dovish wing of his party. He sat on the Knesset Committee and the Interior and Environment Committee, and represented the Knesset on the committee that appoints religious judges.

He died after a serious illness on 12 May 1997, Independence Day, after 11 months in the Knesset. Nissan Slomiansky replaced him. He was a member of Kibbutz Ein HaNetziv and was buried there.