Ya'akov Frank

Israeli politician (1913–1993)

1975–1977Alignment Personal detailsBorn12 March 1913
Jerusalem, Ottoman EmpireDied10 July 1993(1993-07-10) (aged 80)

Ya'akov Frank (12 March 1913 – 10 July 1993) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1975 and 1977.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem during the Ottoman era, Frank received a high school education. He later served as chairman of the Association of Craftsmen.

He was on the Alignment list for the 1973 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 12 August 1975 as a replacement for the deceased Pinchas Sapir.^[1] He sat on the Economic Affairs Committee and the State Control Committee, before losing his seat in the 1977 elections.

He died in 1993 at the age of 80.