Yosef Sapir

Yosef Sapir
Date of birth	27 January 1902
Place of birth	Jaffa, Ottoman Empire
Date of death
Knessets	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Faction represented in Knesset
1949–1961	General Zionists
1961–1965	Liberal Party
1965–1972	Gahal
Ministerial roles
1952–1953	Minister of Health
1953–1955	Minister of Transportation
1967–1969	Minister without Portfolio
1969–1970	Minister of Trade and Industry

Yosef Sapir (Hebrew: יוסף ספיר‎; January 27, 1902 – February 26, 1972) was an Israeli politician and Knesset member of the 1st to 7th Knessets. He served as head of the General Zionists and was a founding member of the Gahal party.

Sapir was born in Jaffa in 1902, during Ottoman period. Between 1940 and 1951, he served as the mayor of Petah Tikva, where a major street (part of Road 481) has been named after him. Shortly after his tenure, Sapir joined the national government at the end of 1952 as the Health Minister and went on to become the Minister of Transportation in 1953 until 1955.

In Levi Eshkol's emergency government formed on the eve of the Six-Day War, Sapir served as a Minister without Portfolio and assumed the post of Minister of Trade and Industry in Golda Meir's government, until Gahal left the coalition on 6 August 1970.

Karmei Yosef, a communal settlement founded in 1984 between Ramle and Beit Shemesh, was named in his honor.

External links

• Yosef Sapir on the Knesset website