Politicsמשה בן-עמי

Moshe Ben-Ami

Moshe Ben-Ami was an Israeli lawyer and politician who served in the first Knesset for the Sephardim and Oriental Communities list.

1898 to 1960Member of the first KnessetSephardi community leadership in Tel AvivChairing Jaffa's Jewish neighborhoods committee

Died: 18 February 1960, Israel
Occupation: politician, lawyer, advocate
Party: Sephardim and Oriental Communities
Education: Lifshitz College of Education

Moshe Ben-Ami was born in 1898 in Tiberias

Moshe Ben-Ami was born in Tiberias in 1898, when the city was under Ottoman rule. He studied at a yeshiva in his hometown.

He went on to the Lipshitz Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem. He then studied law in Jerusalem and qualified as a lawyer.

After moving to Tel Aviv, he became active in public life. From 1943 to 1946 he chaired the committee of the Jewish neighborhoods of Jaffa, and he also headed the Social Services Department of the Tel Aviv municipality. He was deputy chairman of the Sephardi community committee in the city and sat in the Assembly of Representatives from 1931 to 1944.

In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset on the Sephardim and Oriental Communities list. He served on the House Committee, the Finance Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. He lost his seat in the 1951 elections.

Ben-Ami died on 18 February 1960. He was buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.