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Mordechai Bibi
(b. 1922), lawyer and former Israeli Member of the Knesset.

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.

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