Zalman Ben-Ya'akov

Zalman Ben-Ya'akov was born in 1897 in Sieradz

Zalman Ben-Ya'akov was born Zalman Jankelewicz in 1897 in Sieradz, then in the Russian Empire and today in Poland. He studied at a yeshiva.

He was one of the founders of Agudat Yisrael in Poland and helped found Poalei Agudat Yisrael. In 1935 he moved to Mandatory Palestine and settled in Bnei Brak.

He worked in education. He headed the Sinai institutions in Tel Aviv and the True Torah institution in Haifa, and later became a chief inspector of the Ultra-Orthodox education stream.

He ran on the Agudat Yisrael list in 1951 but did not win a seat. He entered the Knesset on 24 June 1953 in place of Avraham Deutsch, who had died, and kept his seat in the 1955 elections.

He died on 2 March 1959 while still serving, and Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross took his seat. A street in Bnei Brak bears his name.