Yitzhak Yitzhaky

Yitzhak Yitzhaky was born in 1902 in Rybnitsa

Yitzhaky was born Yitzhok Lishovsky in Rybnitsa, in the Russian Empire. During the Russian Civil War he served in the Red Army. As a member of HeHalutz, he helped organize Jewish self-defense against pogroms.

He moved to the Land of Israel in 1921 and joined Gdud HaAvoda, working on swamp drainage, road building and construction. He studied law at the University of Paris. For years he was a member of the Histadrut executive committee.

He became a leader of Left Poale Zion and went to Europe as its emissary in 1925. In 1934 he co-founded the Marxist Circles and headed them. He also helped found the League for Arab-Jewish Co-operation and the Israel-Soviet Union Friendship League.

In 1939 the Histadrut sent him to talks with leaders of the Independent Labour Party, to seek their support against the White Paper. He helped start the merger of Left Poale Zion and Ahdut HaAvoda, and was among the leaders of Mapam.

He was elected to the third Knesset for Mapam in July 1955. He died on 21 September 1955, and Yussuf Hamis took his seat.