Background
Stern was born in Suwałki in the Russian Empire (today in Poland) in 1910. During World War I his mother fled the Germans with him and his brother, Avraham, and found refuge with her sister in Russia.
Stern was born in Suwałki in the Russian Empire (today in Poland) in 1910. During World War I his mother fled the Germans with him and his brother, Avraham, and found refuge with her sister in Russia.
Stern studied engineering in Brno in Czechoslovakia. He worked as a building contractor, and was president of the Building Contractors Association. However, he entered the Knesset on 18 June 1979 as a replacement for Shmuel Rechtman, who had resigned his seat after failing in an appeal against a conviction for bribery.
Stern lost his seat in the 1981 elections.
He died in 2003 at the age of 92.
He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935, and became a member of Lehi, of which Avraham was the leader. A member of the Herut central committee, he became a member of Tel Aviv city council in 1969.