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Yeshayahu Foerder

Yeshayahu Foerder was a German-born Israeli lawyer and politician who served in the Knesset for the Progressive Party from 1949 to 1957 and later headed Bank Leumi.

1901 to 1970Progressive Party Knesset memberHeading Bank LeumiCo-founding the Rassco company

Born: 25 March 1901, Charlottenburg
Died: 9 June 1970, Tel Aviv
Occupation: politician, lawyer, manager, chief executive officer
Party: Progressive Party
Education: University of Königsberg, Heidelberg University, University of Freiburg

Yeshayahu Foerder was born in 1901 in Charlottenburg

Foerder was born in 1901 in Charlottenburg, Germany. He studied economics and law at the universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg and Königsberg, and earned a doctorate in law in 1923.

From 1926 he worked as a lawyer in Berlin. He was also political secretary of the Zionist Organisation of Germany. In 1926 he married Gertrud Simon, and they had a daughter, Miriam.

In 1933 he moved to Mandatory Palestine. He was one of the founders of the Rassco housing company and served as its director. In 1944 he was elected to the Assembly of Representatives for the New Aliyah Party.

After independence in 1948 he was put in charge of food supplies. He entered the Knesset in 1949 for the Progressive Party and sat on its finance and economic committees. He resigned in 1957 to head Bank Leumi.

He died of cancer in 1970. An economic research institute at Tel Aviv University was named after him.