Dov Zakin
Dov Zakin was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment and Mapam between 1969 and 1977 and again from 1981 until 1984.Biography
Born in Baranovichi in Poland in 1922, Zakin made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1936. He was educated at the Ben Shemen Youth Village, before studying political Science and economics at Tel Aviv University.
In 1945 he was amongst the founders of kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan. The following year he helped found the Wadi Ara branch of the Eretz Yisrael Workers Union. In 1950, 1952 and 1963 he travelled to the United States as an emissary for Hashomer Hatzair, and between 1959 and 1961 served as secretary of the Peace Movement.
A member of the Mapam secretariat, he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list in 1969. He was re-elected in 1973, and in 1977 was part of the Mapam faction that briefly broke away from the Alignment. He lost his seat in the 1977 elections, but returned to the Knesset after the 1981 elections. He lost his seat for a final time in 1984. In 1986 he became a member of the board of directors of the World Zionist Organization.
He died in 1986.
