Politicsאליהו הכרמלי

Eliyahu HaCarmeli

Eliyahu HaCarmeli was an Israeli educator and politician who served as a Mapai member of the Knesset from 1949 to 1952.

1891 to 1952Mapai member of the KnessetTeaching in the GalileeAdvocacy for Mizrahi immigration

Born: 1 August 1891, Haifa
Died: 21 December 1952, Jerusalem
Occupation: politician, pedagogue, trade unionist, educator
Party: Mapai, The Young Worker

Eliyahu HaCarmeli was born in 1891 in Haifa

He was born Eliyahu Lulu in Haifa on 1 August 1891, during the Ottoman era. He attended an Alliance school in Haifa and then trained at the Alliance teachers seminary in Paris.

From 1920 to 1930 he taught in Menahemia, Yavne'el and Tiberias. He chaired the Lower Galilee branch of the Teachers Union. As a member of Hapoel Hatzair, he sat in the Assembly of Representatives from 1925 to 1931 and was a deputy member of the Jewish National Council.

In 1930 he moved to Jerusalem and became active in Mapai. He went on missions to Morocco and Tunisia for the movement.

He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 and re-elected in 1951. He served on the Education and Culture Committee and the Public Services Committee, and worked for the immigration of Mizrahi Jews to Israel. He died in Jerusalem in 1952 while still in office, was buried in Haifa, and Shlomo Hillel took his seat.