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Shabtai Daniel

Shabtai Daniel, born Shabtai Don-Yihye, was an Israeli journalist and editor of the HaTzofe newspaper who briefly served in the Knesset for the National Religious Party in 1965.

1909 to 1981Editing the HaTzofe newspaperBiographies of religious Zionist figuresBrief 1965 Knesset term

Died: 19 December 1981, Israel
Occupation: journalist, politician, pedagogue
Party: National Religious Party
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shabtai Daniel was born in 1909 in Viļaka

He was born in 1909 in Viļaka, then in the Russian Empire and today in Latvia. He came from a family of rabbis. His father, Rabbi Ben Zion Don-Yihye, was the town's rabbi and later the rabbi of Ludza, and died with his community in the Holocaust.

In 1931 he immigrated to the Land of Israel and studied at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. He later studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a teacher. He taught in Kfar Yabetz and Kfar Hasidim.

A member of Hapoel HaMizrachi, he helped found the HaTzofe newspaper and wrote for it from its start. He later became its editor and held the post until 1981. He also wrote biographies of religious Zionist figures, including Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.

In 1965 he entered the Knesset on the National Religious Party list and sat on the Education and Culture Committee. He resigned soon after and was replaced by Frija Zoaretz. He lived in Tel Aviv, died on 19 December 1981, and was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery.