Yisrael Yeshayahu

Yisrael Yeshayahu

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Speaker of the Knesset · d. 1979

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Yemen-born leader of Yemenite Jews in Israel who served in the Knesset for over two decades, was a government minister, and was Speaker of the Knesset from 1972 to 1977.

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