Date of birth 19 September 1905 Knessets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Year of aliyah 1933 Name Baruch Osnia | |
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Date of death 6 July 1994(1994-07-06) (aged 88) | ||
Baruch Osnia (Hebrew: ברוך אזניה, born Baruch Eisenstadt on 19 September 1905, died 6 July 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1951 and 1969.
Biography
Born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). His parents were Samuel Eisenstadt and Zipora Finfelstein. Osnia was educated at a heder and a high school in Danzig (now Gdańsk), before studying at the University of Königsberg. He returned to Danzig to work as a lawyer, and was a member of Habonim. In 1929 he became secretary of the central committee of the German branch of Poale Zion.
In 1933 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine and taught in a kibbutz high school. He was on the Mapai list for the 1949 elections, but did not win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 12 February 1951 as a replacement for Abba Hushi, who had resigned. He retained his seat in the July 1951 elections, and was re-elected in 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965, by which time Mapai had formed the Alignment alliance. He lost his seat in the 1969 elections.
He died in 1994.