Moshe Sardines

Moshe Sardines was born in 1917 in İzmir

Moshe Sardines was born on 21 June 1917 in Smyrna, now İzmir in Turkey. He worked in trade before he emigrated to Israel in 1949.

He was one of the founders of the moshav Geva Carmel and served as its secretary. He was active in the leadership of the Moshavim Movement and helped found the HaMashbir LaOleh organization. In 1958 he became the first coordinator of the purchasing organization Meshek HaTzafon.

In 1959 he was elected to the Knesset for Mapai as a representative of the Moshavim Movement, and he was re-elected in 1961 and 1965. He worked to gather support for immigrant moshavim and sat on several Knesset committees, including finance and economics. In the Sixth Knesset he was a Deputy Speaker.

In early 1969 it became known that he had debts to his moshav. The audit body of the Moshavim Movement barred him from any public role after finding he had used his positions for his own affairs, and he did not run in the 1969 elections. He died of a heart attack on 24 March 1984 while visiting Kiryat Bialik.