Eliyahu Meridor

Eliyahu Meridor (Hebrew: אליהו מרידור, 20 July 1914 – 16 October 1966) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal from 1959 until his death in 1966.

Born Elijhu Wierzbolowski on 20 July 1914 in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire (now in Russia), Meridor was educated at a Tarbut school in Grajewo in Poland, before studying law at the University of Warsaw.

In 1948 he was amongst the founders of the Herut movement, and chaired its Jerusalem branch.

[1] Meridor had four children; Dan, also a politician, Haggit (Hurvitz), Head of Pediatrics at the Bikur Holim Hospital, Avital (Darmon), Director of the Applied Research Initiative in Education, and Sallai, former chairman of the Jewish Agency and Israeli ambassador to the United States between 2006 and 2009.

His grandchildren included Eli Hurvitz, Executive Director of the Trump Foundation, and Shaul Meridor, Deputy Director of Allocation at the Ministry of Finance.