Ben-Zion Halfon

Ben-Zion Halfon (Hebrew: בן-ציון חלפון, 1930 – 21 September 1977) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1977.

The following year he reached Israel, and joined the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade, with whom he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

[1] He served as national co-ordinator of the movement's purchasing organisation and on the board of the Agricultural Bank.

In 1969 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list (an alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam), and was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture on 22 December that year.

He lost his seat in the May 1977 elections, and died in a traffic collision near Gedera junction a few months later aged 47.

The Archaeological Museum in Nitzana named after Halfon