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Ya'akov Frank

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Date of birth
  
12 March 1913

1975–1977
  
Alignment

Knessets
  
8

Died
  
10 July 1993, Israel

Place of birth
  
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire

Date of death
  
10 July 1993(1993-07-10) (aged 80)

Elected to the Knesset
  
Israeli legislative election, 1973

Ya'akov Frank (12 March 1913 – 10 July 1993) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1975 and 1977.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem during the Ottoman era, Frank received a high school education. He later served as chairman of the Association of Craftsmen.

He was on the Alignment list for the 1973 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 12 August 1975 as a replacement for the deceased Pinchas Sapir. He sat on the Economic Affairs Committee and the State Control Committee, before losing his seat in the 1977 elections.

He died in 1993 at the age of 80.

References

Ya'akov Frank Wikipedia