Education
He studied at high school in Tel Aviv, and later gained an Master of Arts in Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
educationist politician Knesset member
He studied at high school in Tel Aviv, and later gained an Master of Arts in Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Born in Dhamar in the Ottoman Empire (today in Yemen), Garidi made aliyah to Palestine in 1920. Between 1932 and 1944 he worked as a Hebrew teacher. In 1940 he became secretary of the central committee of the Yemenite Association, serving until 1940.
Less than a month after being elected the Yemenite Association merged into the General Zionists.
However, on 29 June 1955 he broke away from the party to reform the Yemenite Association as an independent faction, a move that was not approved by the House committee. He published several books
From Yemen to Zion with Yisrael Yeshayahu in 1938, HaTag: Pentateuch according to Yemenite Jewish tradition in 1940 and Jewish Archives in Yemen in 1948. He also edited the Book of Yemenite Jewry, which was written in memory of fellow Yemenite Association MK Zecharia Glosca in 1974.
He died in 2003 at the age of 89.
He was also a member of the Yemenite youth movement Bnei Shalom in Jerusalem.
