Reuven Feldman

Reuven Feldman was born in 1899 in Kraków

Feldman was born in Kraków in 1899. He studied at yeshivas and at a school of commerce and economics in the city. In 1920 he joined the Hapoel Hatzair Tzeiri Zion federation and chaired the local Tarbut branch.

In 1933 he moved to Mandatory Palestine and opened a grocery store in Tel Aviv. He later became secretary of the grocers' organization and in 1939 published a grocers' newspaper. He was ordained as a rabbi and in 1945 became rabbi of a synagogue in Tel Aviv.

In 1951 he was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai list. He sat on the Economic Committee and the House Committee. He lost his seat in the 1955 elections.

After his election he was dismissed from the grocers' organization and founded a rival group, the Union of Small Merchants. He kept leading it after leaving the Knesset. He died in 1990.