Yehuda Sha'ari

Yehuda Sha'ari was born in 1920 in Siret

Sha'ari was born Yehuda Scheuermann in 1920 in Siret, Romania, to Leah and Yaakov Scheuermann. As a young man he was active in HaNoar HaTzioni and sat on its chief directorate from 1939 to 1941. He studied at Chernivtsi University.

He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1941 and lived at Givat HaMa'apalim and Nitzanim. He qualified as a lawyer at the School of Law and Economics in Tel Aviv and later earned an MA in political science from Tel Aviv University. From 1945 he worked as an emissary in Romania and then western Europe, returning in 1948, when he helped found Alonei Abba.

From 1951 he sat on the Histadrut's Organising Committee for the Progressive Party, and from 1957 to 1961 he headed its Pensions and Legal departments. He entered the Knesset in 1961 on the Liberal Party list. Before the 1965 elections he helped found the Independent Liberals and later served as Deputy Minister of Development and Deputy Minister of Tourism.

Before the 1977 elections he lost internal contests for a high place on the party list and left the list, and the party won 1 seat. He chaired the boards of the Israel Electric Corporation and the Development and Tourism Company. In 1992 he published the book The Path of Social Liberalism, and he died in 1997.