David Stern (Israeli politician)
David Stern was an Israeli businessman and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1979 and 1981.Biography
Stern was born in Suwałki in the Russian Empire in 1910. During World War I his mother fled the Germans with him and his brother, Avraham, and found refuge with her sister in Russia. Stern studied engineering in Brno in Czechoslovakia. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935, and became a member of Lehi, of which Avraham was the leader.
He worked as a building contractor, and was president of the Building Contractors Association.
A member of the Herut central committee, he became a member of Tel Aviv city council in 1969. He was on the Likud list for the 1977 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 18 June 1979 as a replacement for Shmuel Rechtman, who had resigned his seat after failing in an appeal against a conviction for bribery. Stern lost his seat in the 1981 elections.
He died in 2003 at the age of 92.
