Born in Baghdad,
Iraq, he attended the high school in Baghdad and studied at the Law
School of the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. Bibi started his
political activity already in Iraq where he was among the founders
and leaders of the Zionist underground movement until his
immigration to the Land of Israel in 1945. He continued his efforts
on behalf of the Jewish emigration from Iraq during the late 1940s.
A member of the Achdut HaAvodah party since 1946, he was elected
Member of the Knesset representing the Labor Movement from 1959 to
1973. A member of various parliamentary committees, he was elected
Deputy Speaker of the Knesset during his cadence in the 7th Knesset
(1969-1973).
Bibliography:
BIBI, Mordechai,
Me-arba` kanfot ha-Naharayim : `eduyot ve-sipurim `al ha-mahteret
veha-ha`palah be-`Irak. Pp. 181. [Tel Aviv]: ha-Kibuts
ha-me'uhad, 743 [1982 or 1983], c1983.
Links:
The Knesset - The Israeli Parliament