MOSHE SHARET 1ST FOREIGN MINISTER OF ISRAEL POSTER

MOSHE SHARET 1ST FOREIGN MINISTER OF ISRAEL POSTERPRINTED BY "MOSHE HALUTZ"SIZE:34.2 X 24.5CMMoshe Sharett (born Moshe Shertok on 15 October 1894, died 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954-1955), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms. Early lifeBorn in Kherson, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Moshe Sharett emigrated to Palestine in 1908. His family was one of the founders of Tel Aviv. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Herzliya Hebrew High School. He also studied in Ottoman Istanbul and attended the London School of Economics. During World War I Sharett served in the Ottoman army as a junior officer.Sharett's sister Rivka, Dov Hoz's wife, died in a car crash in December of 1940 while driving to an Aviron board meeting. Also killed were Sharett's other sister, Tzvia Sharett, Rivka's daughter Tirza Hoz, and Hoz's business partner, Yitzhak Ben-Yaakov.Public careerFluent in Arabic, he was employed as an official within the nascent Histadrutlabor union. From 1933 to 1948, he guided negotiations between the Zionist movement and the British Mandate of Palestine, which led to the creation of the State of Israel.Due to this experience, Moshe Sharett became the first Foreign Minister of Israel. His pivotal achievement was the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which ended official hostilities between Israel and the Arab states during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.Sharett became Prime Minister following David Ben-Gurion's retirement in January 1954. Considered to be a moderate, he advocated diplomacy with neighboring states, but was unable to implement his policies due to lack of support from hardliners in his government who continued to consult Ben-Gurion, now retired to Kibbutz Sde Boker, bypassing Sharett's authority. In February 1955 Ben-Gurion returned to serve as Minister of Defence under Sharett, replacing Pinhas Lavon who had resigned following a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt known as the Lavon Affair. Ben-Gurion soon regained a prominent position in Mapai party, displacing Sharett as Prime Minister in November 1955.Moshe Sharett served as Foreign Minister (1956), and then became Chairman of the Jewish Agency from 1961 until his death. He also continued to serve, until his death, as a member of the Knesset.