Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky
Israeli politician (1901–1971)
Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky (Hebrew: אֵלִיָּהוּ־מֹשֶׁה גָּנְחוֹבְסְקִי; 23 June 1901 – 19 July 1971) was an Israeli politician and Religious Zionist activist. He served as a member of the Knesset from 1949 until 1955.
Biography
Born in Grajewo in the Łomża Governorate of Congress Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), Ganhovsky studied at a rabbinical seminary in Berlin. In 1923 he was amongst the founders of the Religious Shomer and Religious Pioneer groups. In 1926, he helped organise the Young Mizrachi and League for the Religious Worker groups in Antwerp, and in 1929 became vice-president of the Belgian Zionist Federation.
In 1932 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. The following year, he became a member of Mizrachi's World Central Committee, a position he held until 1942. He was also a member of the executive committee of Hapoel HaMizrachi, a founder of the Mizrachi-affiliated HaTzofe newspaper, and was part of the El Makor faction which advocated political activism. He opened a publishing house named El-Hamekorot, where he published the Talmud with the commentaries of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz among many other sefarim. The commentaries were printed at the back of the Talmud under the title Gilyonos Chazon Ish, and were organized by Eliyahu-Moshe's son, Avrohom.
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