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Zvi Lurie

Zvi Lurie was a Zionist activist and Mapam politician who signed Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948.

1906 to 1968Signing the Declaration of IndependenceFirst director of Kol YisraelFounding kibbutz Ein ShemerCo-founding Mapam

Occupation: politician
Party: United Workers Party

Zvi Lurie was born in 1906 in Łódź

Zvi Lurie was born in Łódź in 1906. He went to the Yavne high school there and then began studies at the universities of Warsaw and Vienna.

He moved to the Land of Israel in September 1925 and joined a Hashomer Hatzair group in Ein Ganim. With this group he founded kibbutz Ein Shemer in 1927. In 1931 he married Guta Markovsky, and they had three children.

Lurie was a founder of the Kibbutz Artzi movement and of Mapam. He served as general secretary of Hashomer Hatzair from 1935 to 1937 and sat on the Jewish National Council. He helped found Kol Yisrael and was its first director until 1948.

In 1948 he signed the Declaration of Independence and joined the Provisional State Council. He later worked for the Jewish Agency, where he headed the organization department and sat on the Zionist Executive.

He died suddenly in 1968 at Ichilov Hospital while preparing for the 27th Zionist Congress. He was buried in Ein Shemer.