Dov Bar-Nir

Dov Bar-Nir was born in 1911 in Brussels metropolitan area

Dov Bar-Nir was born Bernard Silberschatz in Brussels, Belgium, in 1911. As a young man he was among the founders of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Belgium.

He studied social science at the University of Strasbourg and earned a PhD. In 1932 he moved to Mandatory Palestine and joined kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, where he lived until 1956.

He was active in the Socialist League and served as secretary of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party from 1946 to 1948, when it merged into Mapam. He won a Knesset seat in the 1949 elections and sat on the House Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. After being sent to the United States as an emissary of Hashomer Hatzair, he resigned from the Knesset in 1951.

He was secretary of Mapam's central committee from 1951 to 1953 and of the World Union of Mapam from 1957 to 1960. A journalist by profession, he wrote theater criticism and a column for Al HaMishmar for many years. In 1968 he joined the Movement for Peace and Security, and he published several books.

He received the Sokolov Award for journalism in 1993. He died in 2000.