Shimon Kanovitch

July 6, 1900 (age 61)

Germany, European Union

During his youth he joined the Zionist Movement and Zionist student organisations, and later became secretary of the Zionist Federation in Germany. In 1933 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, and became a lecturer at the medical school in Jerusalem, and also in educational psychology at the Kibbutz Seminary. He was amongst the founders of the New Aliyah Party in 1942, which later formed the basis of the Progressive Party. He was elected to the Knesset on the Progressive Party"s list in 1959, but lost his seat in the 1961 elections, by which time the party had merged into the Liberal Party. He died later in 1961 at the age of 61.

Shimon Kanovitch

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Born in Germany in 1900, Kanovitch studied medicine at university in Königsberg, Frankfurt and Tübingen, and was certified as a paediatrician.

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During his youth he joined the Zionist Movement and Zionist student organisations, and later became secretary of the Zionist Federation in Germany. In 1933 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, and became a lecturer at the medical school in Jerusalem, and also in educational psychology at the Kibbutz Seminary. He was amongst the founders of the New Aliyah Party in 1942, which later formed the basis of the Progressive Party.

He was elected to the Knesset on the Progressive Party"s list in 1959, but lost his seat in the 1961 elections, by which time the party had merged into the Liberal Party.

He died later in 1961 at the age of 61.

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