Mordechai Ben-Porat
| Mordechai Ben-Porat | |
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| Date of birth | 12 September 1923 |
| Place of birth | Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq |
| Year of aliyah | 1945 |
| Knessets | 6, 7, 8, 10 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1965–1968 | Rafi |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969–1977 | Alignment |
| 1981–1983 | Telem |
| 1983–1984 | Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1982–1984 | Minister without Portfolio |
Mordechai Ben-Porat (Hebrew: מרדכי בן-פורת Arabic: مناحيم بن بورات, born 12 September 1923) is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister without Portfolio from July 1982 until January 1984. During his four terms in the Knesset, he represented five different parties.
Born Murad Murad(Arabic: مراد مراد) in Baghdad in Iraq, Ben-Porat was the oldest of 11 children of Regina and Nessim Yehezkel Murad; when he reached school age, his father changed the family name to Kazzazz (meaning "silk trader," which was the profession of Ben Porat's grandfather).
Ben-Porat made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1945. He joined the Haganah in 1947 and fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He helped organise the mass immigration of Iraqi Jews between 1949 and 1951, during which he was arrested four times by the Iraqi authorities. He later studied political science at the Tel Aviv adjunct of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and administration at Tel Aviv University.
A member of Mapai, in 1955 he became head of Or Yehuda's local council, a post he held until 1969. When David Ben-Gurion left Mapai to found Rafi, Porat followed him. In 1965 he was elected to the Knesset on Rafi's list. During the Knesset term the party merged into the Labor Party, which then became part of the Alignment. He was re-elected on the Alignment list in 1969. and between 1970 and 1972 served as the Labor Party's deputy secretary.
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