Date of birth 8 May 1890 Name Yosef Baratz 1949–1951 Mapai | Year of aliyah 1906 Role Politician | |
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Place of birth Cosnita, Russian Empire Date of death 14 December 1968 (aged 78) Died 1968, Degania Alef, Israel Knessets Israeli legislative election, 1949 | ||
Place of death Degania Alef, Israel | ||
Yosef Baratz (Hebrew: יוסף ברץ, born 8 May 1890, died 14 December 1968) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
Biography
Born in Coşniţa, a village in Kherson Governorate in the Russian Empire (today in the Dubăsari District of Moldova), Baratz was educated at a Heder and joined the Young Zion movement in Chişinău. He immigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1906, and worked in agriculture in Petah Tikva and Rehovot, and as a stone cutter in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Atlit and Zikhron Ya'akov. He was also amongst the founders of Degania Alef, the first kibbutz.
Baratz was also sent abroad as an emissary, to Russia in 1919, the United States in 1921 and Austria in 1934. He became a member of the central committee of the Haganah, and was also a member of the Assembly of Representatives.
In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset on the Mapai list, but lost his seat in the 1951 elections. He died in 1968 at the age of 78.