Shazar
settled in Palestine in 1924. He became a member of the secretariat of
the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and joined the editorial staff
of its daily paper Davar. He was a member of the Jewish Agency delegation
to the United Nations General Assembly in 1947. Afer his election to the
First Knesset, he became Israel's first Minister of Education and Culture
(19491951). He became a member of the Jewish Agency Executive (1952),
and from 1956 to 1960 was acting chairman of the Agency's Jerusalem Executive. In
addition to his political activity, Shazar was a scholar and author. His
literary work took many forms, from poetry and autobiographical fiction
to scholarly treatises and published articles, in both Hebrew and Yiddish. |