Moshe Baram

Moshe Baram was born in 1911 in Zdolbuniv

Moshe Baram was born in 1911 in Zdolbuniv, in the Russian Empire, to Noah and Haya. He went to school in Kovno. As a youth he joined the HeHalutz movement and Dror, which was tied to the Poale Zion party.

In 1931 he moved to Mandate Palestine and settled in Jerusalem. He worked in construction, joined the Haganah and was a counselor in a socialist youth movement. In 1935 he married Grazia, and they had 4 children, among them Uzi Baram and Haim Baram.

From 1934 he worked for the Jewish Agency, and in 1943 he became Secretary of Mapai's Jerusalem branch. In 1948 he was elected Secretary of the Jerusalem Workers Council. He sat on the Jerusalem City Council from 1955 to 1959.

He entered the Knesset in 1959 on the Mapai list and stayed until 1977. He was Minister of Labour from 1974 to 1977 and in 1977 also took the Welfare Ministry. He lost his seat in the 1977 elections.

In 1981 he published the book Not in a Furrow. He died in 1986 and was buried at Har HaMenuchot. A street in Jerusalem is named after him.