Background
Orbach was born to a Jewish family.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Orbach was born to a Jewish family.
Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University.
He was general secretary of the Trades Advisory Council from 1940 and chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee. Orbach contested Huntingdonshire in the 1931 election and Willesden East in 1935 and in a 1938 by-election. In 1937 he was elected to the London County Council, representing Street Pancras South West.
His successor was Thomas McNally.
In 2010 The Guardian referred to him as "a self-proclaimed Labour Zionist who had conspicuously failed to support Israel during the Suez crisis.".
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He was elected Member of Parliament for Willesden East in 1945, serving until his defeat in 1959, and for Stockport South from 1964 until his death just before the 1979 general election.