Elazar Granot

Elazar Granot (Hebrew: אלעזר גרנות; 12 March 1927 – 19 September 2013) was an Israeli politician and a writer.

Born in Jerusalem during the Mandatory Palestine, Granot was educated at Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School, before moving onto the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he studied philosophy, sociology, literature, Hebrew and Bible.

During World War II he volunteered for the Jewish Brigade, in which he served between 1944 and 1946.

Although he became Mapam's secretary general in 1985, Granot lost his seat in the 1988 elections.

In 2016 he was accused of being a KGB agent for the Soviet Union in the Mitrokhin Archive.