Eliezer Shostak

Eliezer Shostak (Hebrew: אליעזר שוסטק, 16 December 1911 – 20 August 2001) was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health from 1977 until 1984 and as a member of the Knesset from 1951 until 1988.

Eliezer Shostak as born in Volodymyrets in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine).

In 1936, Shostak was elected secretary of the National Workers Labour Federation.

He became a member of the central committee of Hatzohar and sat on the movement's national executive.

During the Herut convention in 1966 he and Shmuel Tamir constituted the major opposition to Begin's leadership of the party, and the following year he and three other Herut MKs left the party to form the Free Centre.

Shostak Square, Ramat Gan