Ya'akov Nehoshtan

Ya'akov Nehoshtan was born in 1925 in Kazanlak

Nehoshtan was born in Kazanlak, Bulgaria, in 1925. He finished high school in Vratsa and belonged to a Jewish youth movement. In 1944 he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine.

He joined the Irgun in 1944 and was active in Jerusalem. The British arrested him in 1945 and exiled him to a detention camp in Eritrea, and in 1947 he was moved to Kenya.

He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer in 1955. He practiced law for many years and was legal adviser to the Mevaseret Zion local council.

He was active in Herut and became head of its Jerusalem branch in 1968. In 1969 he entered the Knesset on the Gahal list and served until 1974.

In 1979 he became a senior diplomat at Israel's embassy in Washington. From 1982 to 1985 he was ambassador to the Netherlands. He died in 2019, and his son Ido later commanded the Israeli Air Force.