New Cabinet appointments were announced here in a reshuffle that will provide a Cabinet post for the first time to a Yemen-born Jew — Israel Yeshayahu Sharabi — who was named Minister of Posts. Mr. Sharabi, 56, succeeds to the post vacated by Eliahu Sasson who was named Minister of Police in place of Behor Shitreet, who retired. The appointments were approved by Parliament today.
A deputy speaker of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, Mr. Sharabi has been a leading member of Mapai for several decades. He arrived in Palestine in 1929. Mr. Sasson, 64, had served as a Jewish Agency official and as Israel’s Ambassador to a number of countries before he was named Minister of Posts. In an earlier appointment, Zev Sharef had been named to succeed Commerce and Industry Minister Haim Zadok, who resigned.
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