Date of birth 1888 1949–1951 Herut Name Avraham Rakanti | Year of aliyah 1934 Role Politician Date of death 3 March 1980 Died March 3, 1980 | |
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Knessets Israeli legislative election, 1949 | ||
Place of birth Thessaloniki, Greece | ||
Avraham Shmuel Rakanti (Hebrew: אברהם שמואל רקנאטי, born 1888, died 3 March 1980) was a Greek-Israeli politician and journalist. In Greece he served as deputy mayor of Thessaloniki between 1925 and 1933, whilst in Israel he was a member of the Knesset for Herut between 1949 and 1951.
Biography
Born in Thessaloniki in Greece, Rakanti studied in a heder. A member of the Mizrachi association, in 1925 he joined the Revisionist Zionism movement, and became head of the Greek branch. In the same year he became deputy mayor of Thessaloniki, a position he held until 1933. He also founded and edited the French language newspaper, Pro-Yisrael. In 1934 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine.
A member of the Revisionist Zionist central committee, he was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 on the Herut list, but lost his seat in the 1951 elections.
He died on 3 March 1980.