Rafael Bash

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rafael Bash (8 January 1913 – 10 March 2000) was an Israeli politician. He was born in the Russian Empire (in what is now Latvia) and made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1938. He joined the kibbutz Kfar Blum and remained there until 1956. Bash was on Mapai’s list in the 1949 elections but did not win a seat. In 1950 he became director of Mapai’s youth department, a role he held until 1953. He entered the Knesset on 21 May 1951 as a replacement for Yosef-Michael Lamm, but lost his seat in the July 1951 elections. In 1954 he became General Secretary of Mapai, serving until 1956. From 1962 to 1966 he served as Mapai’s secretary. He was a member of the Histadrut’s central committee and, in 1966, became director of Histadrut’s Culture and Education centre. He also served on the secretariat of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Workers Council. He died in 2000 at the age of 87.