Yitzhak Berman was born in 1913 in in Berdychiv in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), Berman made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1920. He studied at a teacher training college in Jerusalem, before studying to be a lawyer in London.
He studied at a teacher training college in Jerusalem. After that he studied law in London.
Teacher Training College, Jerusalem, University College, London and Inner Temple, London. Settled in Palestine 1921. Served in British Army 1942-1945.
Mem Command, Irgun Zevayi Leumi, later Major, Israeli Defence Force 194850. General Manager Willis Overland & Kaizer Assembly Plant, Haifa 1950-1954. private law practice, Tel-Aviv since 1954. Leader Liberal Part) of Israel since 1986, Jt.
Leader New Liberal Party since 1987.
In 1951 he joined the General Zionists and became chairman of the party's Tel Aviv branch in 1964. In 1974 he became chairman of the party's national secretariat,[3] and in 1977 elections was voted into the Knesset on the list of Likud (of which the General Zionists had become a faction).
Central Committee Liberal Party since 1968. Knesset 1977, Speaker March 1980-1981.
