Shalom-Avraham Shaki

Shalom-Avraham Shaki was born in 1906 in Yemen

Shaki was born in Yemen and studied in a heder in Sanaa. In 1914, as a child, he moved to the Land of Israel. He studied in the Yemenite village in Shiloah in Jerusalem, at the Doresh Zion Talmud Torah and at the Mizrachi teachers' seminary.

He later studied at the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He taught in Hadera from 1929 and in Tel Aviv from 1930 to 1951. He was active in the Yemenite community and in Hapoel HaMizrachi, and helped found the religious youth group Bnei Yeshurun.

From 1950 to 1951 he headed the religious school in the Yemenite immigrant camp in Ein Shemer. From 1952 to 1963 he headed a school in Bnei Brak. He wrote a book in 4 volumes on the customs of Jewish communities.

He entered the Knesset in 1962 for the National Religious Party, replacing Mordechai Nurock, and sat on the interior and education committees. He lost his seat in the 1965 elections. He died in 1990.