Famous People with Name Avraham

Avraham Sharir            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avraham Sharir: is a former Israeli politician.He was elected to the ninth Knesset in 1977 for the Likud and again in 1981, 1984 and 1988. He was a member of the finance committee in the ninth Knesset and of the foreign affairs & defense committee in the twelfth. He was the Minister of Tourism in the tenth Knesset and also Minister of Justice in the eleventh.

Avraham Shochat            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avraham Shochat: is a former Israeli politician who twice served as Minister of Finance.In 1967 Shochat became head of the Arad local council. In addition to his mayoral duties he was also deputy chairman of the Union of Local Authorities, chairman of the Development Towns Committee of the Union of Local Authorities.

Avraham Ofek            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avraham Ofek: was an Israeli sculptor, muralist, painter and printmaker. Born in Bourgaz, Bulgaria, he immigrated to Israel in 1949, where he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, as well as in Spain and in London, and later taught art in Jerusalem before being appointed head of the Art Department at Haifa University.

Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat: was an Israeli journalist and politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1951.In the elections for the first Knesset in 1949, he won a seat on the United Religious Front list, an alliance of the four major religious parties. He lost his seat in the 1951 elections. In 1954 he left Poalei Agudat Yisrael, and later joined the National Religious Party, becoming a member of its directorate and head of its Culture and Information department.

Avraham Shmuel Rakanti            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Avraham Shmuel Rakanti: 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.