Dov Milman

Dov Milman was born in 1919 in Riga

Dov Milman was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1919. He studied at Hebrew Tarbut schools in the city and joined the Betar youth movement in 1931, where he became an instructor. He moved to Mandatory Palestine as a student in 1937 and played in the early Beitar Jerusalem football team.

He joined the Irgun and served in its Jerusalem district command. He studied philosophy and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and law in Jerusalem and at the University of London. He was certified as a lawyer in 1951 and later served as secretary of the Israel Bar Association from 1963 to 1965.

In 1948 he was among the founders of Herut. He chaired its Tel Aviv branch from 1955 to 1959 and its municipal department from 1968 to 1988. He was elected to the Knesset for Gahal in 1969 and sat on the finance, foreign affairs and defense, and interior committees, but lost his seat in 1973.

From 1979 he was an Israeli delegate to the European Parliament and deputy head of the delegation to the European Economic Community. He was ambassador to Portugal from 1981 to 1983, and chaired the board of the Shikun VePituah company from 1987 to 1990. He later chaired the Likud veterans group from 1996 to 2000 and the Latvian and Estonian immigrants association, and he died in 2007.