David-Zvi Pinkas

David-Zvi Pinkas (Hebrew: דָּוִד־צְבִי פִּנְקָס, 5 December 1895 – 14 August 1952) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.

[1] He was involved in Zionist youth groups, and was one of the leaders of Young Mizrachi in Vienna and one of the founders of the Yeshuran movement.

In Israel's first elections in 1949 he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the United Religious Front, an alliance of Agudat Yisrael, Poalei Agudat Yisrael, Mizrachi (Pinkas' party) and Hapoel HaMizrachi, and served as chairman of the influential finance committee.

In the 1951 elections Mizrachi ran alone, and Pinkas retained his seat, though the party won only two mandates.

In June 1952, a bomb was left on his doorstep by Amos Kenan and Shaltiel Ben Yair.

Pinkas' tomb (left, with his wife, Leah on the right) in Tel Aviv