Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky

Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky was born in 1901 in Grajewo

Ganhovsky was born in 1901 in Grajewo, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Shlomo Yosef Ganhovsky, founded the El HaMekorot publishing house. He studied in Warsaw and then at a rabbinical seminary in Berlin.

In 1923 he helped found the Religious Shomer and Religious Pioneer movements. In 1926 he went to Antwerp to organize Young Mizrachi and the League for the Religious Worker. In 1929 he became vice-president of the Belgian Zionist Federation.

He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1932 and joined Mizrachi's World Central Committee, serving until 1942. He sat on the executive committee of Hapoel HaMizrachi and helped found the HaTzofe newspaper. He published religious books, including the Talmud with commentaries by Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz.

He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 for the United Religious Front and re-elected in 1951 for Hapoel HaMizrachi. He sat on the finance, public services, and education committees. He lost his seat in 1955, died in 1971, and was buried in Bnei Brak.