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Shimshon Unichman

Shimshon Unichman was a Betar leader and physician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut from 1955 to 1961.

1907 to 1961Leadership in the Betar movementHerut member of the KnessetDetention by the British in Eritrea

Born: 13 February 1907, Lutsk
Died: 21 March 1961, Israel
Occupation: politician, physician
Party: Herut
Education: Charles University

Shimshon Unichman was born in 1907 in Lutsk

Unichman was born in Lutsk in 1907, the son of Israel Unichman. He went to high school in his home city.

He studied medicine at the university in Prague and earned a medical doctorate. While there he was active in the Betar movement, and in 1932 he joined the national leadership of Betar in Poland.

In 1935 he moved to the Land of Israel and commanded the Betar mobilization platoon in Rosh Pinna. He also headed Betar in the Land of Israel and sat on the Revisionist movement's central committee. In 1944 the British arrested him and sent him to a detention camp in Eritrea.

From 1946 to 1948 he led the World Secretariat of the Revisionist Zionists. After 1948 he joined Herut and was elected to the Knesset in 1955, then reelected in 1959.

He died of a heart attack in 1961 while still in office and was buried in Rosh Pinna, next to Shlomo Ben-Yosef. Avraham Drori took his seat. Streets in Tel Aviv and Kiryat Shmona bear his name.