Education
Tel Aviv University.
Tel Aviv University.
Born in Lithuania in 1921, Melamed was deported from the Kovno ghetto to Dachau-Kaufering in 1944. After he was liberated from an evacuation train he became a leader among the Sherit Hapletah, the survivors of the Holocaust in Germany. He made aliyah to Israel in 1948, where he joined the Palmach and fought in the Negev Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
In 1950 he was amongst the founders of Nir Etzion, and later studied law and economics at Tel Aviv University.
He was re-elected in 1973, 1977 and 1981, before losing his seat in the 1984 elections. He died in 2005 at the age of 84.
He joined the National Religious Party, and was a member of its Mifne faction.