Isaac Coren

Isaac Coren was born in 1911 in Chișinău

Coren was born in 1911 in Chișinău, in Bessarabia, to Sarah and Avraham Coren. He studied at the Hebrew gymnasium Magen David. In 1928 he began law studies at the University of Iași and finished them in 1932, then worked as a lawyer.

As a student he was among the leaders of the Zionist student association in Romania. He was active in Tze'irei Zion, edited party papers, and in 1936 started the youth movement of the united party Ahdut. He was a delegate to the 20th and 21st Zionist Congresses.

On 1 May 1940 he immigrated to the Land of Israel with his wife Clara, settled in Tel Aviv and joined the Haganah. From 1941 to 1944 he headed the information and organization department of Hamashbir Hamerkazi. From 1944 to 1961 he was secretary of the Moshavim Movement, and 158 moshavim were founded in those years.

He was elected to the Knesset for Mapai in 1959 and again in 1961, and served as Deputy Minister of Finance under Levi Eshkol. He lost his seat in 1965, returned with the Alignment in 1969, and lost it again in 1973. From 1964 to 1979 he was secretary of the World Union of Labor Zionists.

Coren died in 1994. His daughter Ruth married politician Moshe Nissim, and his son Dani served briefly as a Labor Party Knesset member in 2006.