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Haim Corfu

Israeli politician (1921–2015)

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Israeli politician (1921–2015)

Field	Value
image	Minister of transportation Haim Corfo met with Garage Association members (FL45845027).jpg
caption	Corfu in 1981
birth_date
birth_place	Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
death_date
death_place	Ramat Gan, Israel
office1	Ministerial roles
suboffice1	Minister of Transportation
subterm1	1981–1988
office2	Faction represented in the Knesset
suboffice2	Gahal
subterm2	1969–1974
suboffice3	Likud
subterm3	1974–1992
signature	Haim_Corfu_Signature_from_the_Goldman_Collection.png
native_name	חיים קורפו
native_name_lang	he

Haim Corfu (; 6 January 1921 – 23 February 2015) was an Israeli politician, and earlier Irgun commander and assassin.

Biography

Corfu was born in Jerusalem in 1921 to an ultra-Orthodox family. He studied in religious schools and yeshivas and attended a religious teachers seminary.

In 1937 he joined the Irgun and was a member of the Irgun command in Jerusalem. During that time he also played as a striker for Beitar Jerusalem.

He used his training as an electrician to design explosives. He was responsible for the assassinations of CID officers Ralph Cairns and Ronald Barker. Corfu, observing the two while hiding behind a stonemason's shack, pressed the detonator of the remotely-controlled mine that killed them. He was in charge of mining the income tax offices on 26 February 1944.

He was in charge of mining the income tax offices on 26 February 1944.

After the establishment of the State of Israel he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer. From 1967 to 1969 he was a member of the Jerusalem city council. In 1969, he was elected to the seventh Knesset for Gahal, and was subsequently elected to the eighth through twelfth Knessets for Likud. In the seventh and eighth Knessets he was a member of the finance committee and in the eighth he was also a member of the subcommittee for the defense budget. In the ninth and twelfth Knessets he was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and in the twelfth he was the chairman of the house committee.

Corfu as Minister of Transportation (1982)

Between 1981 and 1988 he served as transportation minister, supporting the consolidation of Israel Railways with the Ports Authority.

In 1986, he was invited to attend a transportation convention in Morocco and thus became the first Israeli cabinet member to be asked to attend a conference in an Arab country other than Egypt. In 1987, he voted for a bill to grant a blanket amnesty to the Jewish Underground prisoners. In April 1992 he resigned from the Knesset to become chairman of the Israeli Airports Authority, a position he held until 1996.

References

[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/former-likud-minister-haim-corfu-passes-away-94/], [[Times of Israel]]
Dayan, Shai. "Team history". Betar.net.
Golan, Zev. (2003). "Free Jerusalem: Heroes, Heroines and Rogues Who Created the State of Israel". Devora Publishing.
Lapidot, Yehuda. "The beginning". Daat.
Lapidot, Yehuda. "The Latrun detention camp". Daat.
"חבר הכנסת חיים קורפו".
Etzioni, Amir. "Reforming Israel's seaports". Policy Studies.
Mahler, Gregory S.. (1990). "Israel after Begin". SUNY Press.
Lustick, Ian. (1988). "For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel". Council on Foreign Relations.

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