Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was
Sharett in 1954
Moshe Sharett (standing in the middle), a first lieutenant in the Ottoman Army, with other Jewish officers from Palestine in the army (1916)
Moshe Shertok (Sharett) (standing, right) at a meeting with Arab leaders at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, 1933. Also pictured are Haim Arlosoroff (sitting, centre) with Chaim Weizmann (to his right), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (standing, to Shertok's right)
Zionist leaders, arrested in Operation Agatha, in detention in Latrun (L-R): David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Mr Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, and Isser Harel (1946)
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was th
Moshe Sharett
…with the British Army against Nazi Germany during World War II. A member of Mapai, Sharett's term was both preceded and succeeded by the premiership of David Ben-Gurion. Moshe Sharett was born in Kherson in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine) to the family of Yaakov Chertok and Fanya née Lev (לב). In 1906 the Chertok…
Poalei Zion's "Ezra" group in Płońsk, 1905. David Grün (David Ben-Gurion) in the first row, third on the right
Ben-Gurion with Rachel Nelkin and members of Ezra on eve of their departure to Palestine, August 1906; his father and stepmother sitting in the windows
Ben-Gurion working at Rishon Lezion winery (front row, 6th from right), 1908