Haim Tzadok, one of the founders of Israel’s Labor Party and its legal system, died Thursday at 89. Tzadok served as assistant attorney general from 1949 to 1952, and in the Knesset from 1958 to 1977. During that time he served in several Cabinet posts, including trade, justice and religious affairs minister. He died while vacationing in Germany.
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