Haim Ariav (Hebrew: חיים אריאב; 1895 – 16 June 1957) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1957.
[1] He emigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1912 and finished his secondary education at the Herzliya Hebrew High School.
[1] After the Nili group was discovered, Ariav was arrested and sent to Istanbul, though he was later released and sent to the Caucasus front to be an officer and translator.
[1] In 1929 he was appointed general secretary of the Jerusalem branch of the Jewish Agency, where he worked until 1931.
[1] A secretary of the Hitahdut HaIkarim, in 1934 he founded the Society for Local Councils,[1] and assisted in the establishment of Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School.