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David Shiffman

David Shiffman was an Israeli politician who served as a Likud member of the Knesset and Deputy Minister of Transportation from 1981 until his death in 1982.

1923 to 1982Deputy Minister of TransportationDeputy mayor of Tel AvivChairing the Israel Electric Corporation

Born: 14 April 1923, Warsaw
Died: 18 October 1982, Israel
Occupation: politician, manager, industrialist, chief executive officer
Party: Likud

David Shiffman was born in 1923 in Warsaw

David Shiffman was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1923 and came to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. His family settled in Kfar Hasidim, where he studied in a yeshiva. He was active in the Bnei Akiva youth movement and helped found the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh.

He served in the IDF Military Police and left the army as a major. He also studied at the teachers seminary in Jerusalem.

He was general secretary of the Israel Merchants Association and ran a hotel supply company from 1968 to 1974. He joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the Tel Aviv city council. In 1974 he became deputy mayor, in charge of areas that included engineering.

He also chaired the Israel Electric Corporation and the Ayalon Highways company. In 1981 he entered the Knesset on the Likud list and became Deputy Minister of Transportation in the Begin government. He died in office in 1982, and Ariel Weinstein took his seat.

A bridge near Tel Aviv Center railway station and a high school in Tirat Carmel are named after him.