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Binyamin Sasson

Binyamin Sasson
Sasson in the 1950s
Faction represented in the Knesset
1951Sephardim & Oriental Communities
1951–1955General Zionists
Personal details
Born1903
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
Died1 May 1989
Israel

Binyamin Sasson (Hebrew: בנימין ששון; 1903 – 1 May 1989) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1951 to 1955.

Biography

Born Saleh Silas in Baghdad during the Ottoman era, Sasson emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1937. He became one of the leaders of Sephardic Jews in Palestine and served as deputy chairman of the Committee of Sephardi Jewry. He was also a member of the board of the World Federation of Sephardi Communities and president of the Iraqi community in Tel Aviv. He was one of the founders of the Israeli branch of Rotary and served as president of the Tel Aviv branch between 1945 and 1946.

A municipal judge, he was elected to the Knesset in 1951 on the Sephardim and Oriental Communities list. Six weeks after the elections the party merged into the General Zionists. Sasson lost his seat in the 1955 elections. He died in 1989.