Politicsדוד בר-רב-האי

David Bar-Rav-Chai

David Bar-Rav-Hai was an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as a Mapai member of the Knesset from 1949 to 1955 and from 1956 to 1965.

1894 to 1977Mapai member of the KnessetChairing the 1948 election committeeLaw practice in Haifa

Born: 11 July 1894, Nizhyn
Died: 14 July 1977, Israel
Occupation: politician
Party: Mapai, The Young Worker
Education: Jerusalem Law Classes

David Bar-Rav-Chai was born in 1894 in Nizhyn

David Borovoi was born in 1894 in Nizhyn, in the Russian Empire. He joined the Zionist Students Organization in Odessa and moved to Germany in 1911. He returned to Russia in 1918 and joined the Young Zion movement.

He served as secretary of the Jewish community in Odessa until the Soviet authorities closed it. He then joined the Zionist underground and was arrested in 1922. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison, released after 15 months and expelled.

In 1924 he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and joined Hapoel Hatzair. He studied law and opened a law office in Haifa in 1933. He sat on the Jewish National Council and chaired the election committee in 1948.

He entered the Knesset for Mapai in 1949 and was reelected in 1951. He lost his seat in 1955 but returned in 1956 in place of Senetta Yoseftal, serving until 1965. He died in 1977, and a street in Haifa bears his name.