Maurice Orbach (13 July 1902 – 24 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician,[1] who represented the Willesden East and Stockport South constituencies.
[2] Born to a Jewish family, Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University.
In 1954, on behalf of both the WJC and Winston Churchill, he went to Cairo to help save the lives of Jews sentenced to death as part of the Lavon Affair.
[3] Later, he said that Egypt's President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had agreed to spare their lives but then reneged to balance their deaths with members of Muslim Brotherhood.
[8] Son Laurence taught history at Columbia University, New York, before founding Quarto Publishing in London in 1976 and served as chairman and CEO of The Quarto Group, Inc.[9] At his death in 1979, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency called him a "prominent leader of Anglo Jewry" and stated "a stalwart Zionist, he was a founder of the Labour Friends of Israel.