Education
Born in Khalopenichy, Minsk Governorate in the Russian Empire (in present-day Belarus), Klivnov attended high school in Ukraine before studying law at the University of Petersburg, where he was certified as a lawyer in 1912.
journalist politician Knesset member
Born in Khalopenichy, Minsk Governorate in the Russian Empire (in present-day Belarus), Klivnov attended high school in Ukraine before studying law at the University of Petersburg, where he was certified as a lawyer in 1912.
He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1921. In the first Knesset elections in 1949, he was elected on the General Zionists list. He was re-elected in 1951, but lost his seat in the 1955 elections.
However, he re-entered the Knesset on 16 June 1957 as a replacement for the deceased Haim Ariav. He lost his seat in the 1959 elections and died in 1966.
He was a member of the Zionist youth group HaTehiya between 1905 and 1910, and between 1907 and 1920 he edited a Russian newspaper. From 1913 until 1917 he served as secretary of the Zionist Federation in Russia, attended Zionist congresses, and was also a member of the Devotees of the Hebrew Language group. He was a member of the Community Committee in Haifa, and was amongst the founders of Kiryat Motzkin in 1934.