Career
He held several ministerial portfolios, and served as Minister of Agriculture between 1964 and 1974. He made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1924, and was one of the founders of kibbutz Gvat in 1926, serving as its secretary for several years. Following the split in the kibbutz movement, he moved to Yifat.
In 1950 he was appointed director general of the Agriculture Ministry, serving until 1958.
He was also on the board of Mekorot, the national water company. He was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment"s list in the 1965 elections and retained his ministerial post, even after he resigned his Knesset seat in January 1966.
Despite resigning his seat, he was re-elected in 1969 and continued to serve as Minister of Agriculture. Between December 1969 and July 1970 he also served as Minister of Health, and from 1970 until March 1974 served as Minister of Development.
Although he was not re-elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections, he continued to serve as Minister of Agriculture until Golda Meir resigned.
He was not included in Yitzhak Rabin"s new government.
