Zvi Shiloah

Zvi Shiloah was born in 1911 in Boryslav

Zvi Shiloah was born Zvi Langsam in Boryslav in 1911. He attended a local gymnasium and was a member of the Gordonia youth movement. He moved to the Land of Israel in 1932 and later studied history at Tel Aviv University.

He joined Mapai in 1934 and began working for the Herzliya Workers Council in 1938. In 1941 he enlisted in the Artillery Corps of the British Army. He later headed a Jewish Brigade delegation to the displaced persons camps in Munich.

From 1949 to 1954 he edited a Mapai newspaper. He sat on the Herzliya city council from 1954 and was deputy mayor from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 he joined Rafi and served on its secretariat.

After the Six-Day War he helped found the Movement for Greater Israel and edited its biweekly publication. He joined the Likud directorate in 1973 and left the party in 1977 to help found Tehiya. He entered the Knesset on 7 March 1984 in place of Hanan Porat and lost his seat in the elections that year.

He wrote political articles and a weekly column in Yedioth Ahronoth. He died in 2000 and was buried in the old cemetery in Herzliya.