Shevah Weiss (Hebrew: שבח וייס; born 5 July 1935), is an Israeli political scientist and former politician.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 See also
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Weiss was born in Borysław, Poland (since 1945 Boryslav, Ukraine) into a Polish Jewish family to Gienia and Meir Wolf Weiss. He was rescued by Ukrainians and Poles during the German occupation of Poland. As a Holocaust survivor, he migrated to Palestine in 1947. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a BA in International Relations in 1961, before doing an MA in political Science and contemporary Jewish studies and then a PhD. In 1975 he became a professor at the University of Haifa.

He served as a member of the board of the Haifa municipality between 1969 and 1981, when he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Alignment. Between 1988 and 1992, he served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and between 1992 and 1996 as Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1999 elections.

In 2000 he became a president of the Yad Vashem Council. From 2001 to 2003, he served as an Israeli amb*ador in Poland. On 4 January 2004, for his contribution to the cooperation between Poland and Israel, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded him with the Grand Cross (1st cl*) of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Weiss speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian and English.

See also

• List of Knesset speakers

References

External links

• Shevah Weiss on the Knesset website