Yosef Kremerman

Yosef Kremerman was born in 1926 in Haifa

Kremerman was born in Haifa in 1926, during the Mandate era. He went to high school in Tel Aviv and later studied law, business administration and forestry.

As a young man he joined the Irgun and took part in several operations. After World War II he was sent to Europe to guide young Holocaust survivors. He returned with some of them aboard the Altalena and left the ship before it was shelled.

In 1957 he became treasurer of Herut. He edited the party newspaper HaYom, chaired the national Beitar sports center in the 1960s and headed the Tel Aviv branch from 1970. He entered the Knesset on 20 August 1964 after the death of Avraham Drori and kept his seat until the 1977 elections.

In late 1969 he won Herut's internal contest for a minister post and gave it up so it would go to Ezer Weizman. As treasurer he chaired the Tel Hai Fund, and in 1975, when its debts became known, he was sidelined from the treasurer role. Because of this affair he was not given a realistic place on the list for the ninth Knesset.

In the 1960s he joined Etz Lavud, the company his father Shaul co-founded, and served as joint general manager with his brother David. He married Likud activist Rachel Kremerman-Meridor, daughter of Yaakov Meridor. He died of a heart attack in 1981 and was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.