Berl Repetur, one of the founders of modern Israel and signatory of the Declaration of Independence in 1948, died Thursday at the age of 86.
Repetur, who came to Israel with the third aliyah after the Russian Revolution, was one of the founders of the Histadrut labor federation and a member of the Gedud Ha’avoda labor brigade, which drained swamps and built roads. He played a leading role in making the port of Haifa a Jewish work place.
He served as a Knesset member representing the Labor Party for many years, before retiring to his home at Kibbutz Yagur, near Haifa, where he was to be buried Friday.
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