Eliyahu-Moshe Ganchovsky
Faction represented in the Knesset
1949–1951United Religious Front
1951–1955Hapoel HaMizrachi
Personal details
Born(1901-06-23)23 June 1901
Grajewo, Russian Empire
Died19 July 1971(1971-07-19) (aged 70)
Resting placeShomrei Shabbat Cemetery, Bnei Brak
32°4′21″N 34°50′2″E / 32.07250°N 34.83389°E / 32.07250; 34.83389

Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky (Hebrew: אֵלִיָּהוּ־מֹשֶׁה גָּנְחוֹבְסְקִי‎, 23 June 1901–19 July 1971) was an Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist. He served as a member of the Knesset from 1949 until 1955.

Biography

Born in Grajewo in the Łomża Governorate of Congress Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), he studied at a rabbinical seminary in Berlin. In 1923, he was amongst the founders of the Religious Shomer and Religious Pioneer groups.[1] In 1926, he helped organise the Young Mizrachi and League for the Religious Worker groups in Antwerp, and in 1929 became vice-president of the Belgian Zionist Federation.

In 1932, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. The following year, he became a member of Mizrachi's World Central Committee, a position he held until 1942. He was also a member of the executive committee of Hapoel HaMizrachi, a founder of the Mizrachi-affiliated HaTzofe newspaper, and was part of the El Makor faction which advocated political activism. He opened a publishing house named El-Hamekorot, where he published the Talmud with the commentaries of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz among many other sefarim.[2][3] The commentaries were printed at the back of the Talmud under the title Gilyonos Chazon Ish,[4] and were organized by Eliyahu-Moshe's son, Avrohom.[2]

He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 on the United Religious Front list (an alliance of the four major religious parties), and was re-elected in 1951, when Hapoel HaMizrachi ran an independent list. He lost his seat in the 1955 elections, and died in 1971.

References

  1. ↑ Tidhar, David (1947). "Eliyahu Moshe Ganhovsky" אליהו משה גנחובסקי. Entsiklopediyah le-ḥalutzi ha-yishuv u-vonyo (in Hebrew and English). Vol. 2. p. 718. OCLC 16282511. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  2. 1 2 Menachem Genack (Oct 31, 2012). "Guest tribute". Mishpacha. No. 432. p. 20.
  3. ↑ Nesanel Gantz (Oct 17, 2012). Ami Magazine. No. 90.
  4. ↑ "Harav Avraham Genechovsky, zt"l". Hamodia. Retrieved Feb 27, 2013.
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