Avraham Tiar

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• Was born in Gabès, Tunisia, on January 29, 1924 in Tunisia
• He completed his studies at the French state high school.
• He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer.
• At the age of 13, he joined the Betar movement in his hometown of Gabès, was elected head of the local branch in 1942, and from 1945 was responsible for the movement's activity in Gabès and its surrounding area.
• Between 1946 and 1947, he served as Secretary General of the Betar movement and chairman of the Revisionist Party in Tunisia.
• In 1947, he set out for the Land of Israel aboard the ship Ben Hecht, but only arrived in April 1948 after a period of detention in the Cyprus internment camps.
• His political activity continued in Israel as a member of the Herut movement, where he served from 1956 as a member of the party's central committee and, from 1961, as secretary of the party's Haifa branch.
• From 1961 to 1969, Tayar served as a Member of Knesset in the fifth and sixth Knessets.
• He was a member of various Knesset committees, including the Committee on Educational Reform.
• Concurrently, from 1963 to 1966, he headed the youth division of the Herut movement.
• He was among the founders of the “Blue and White” faction in the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and served as deputy chairman of the faction.
• In 1967, Tiar split from Herut and joined the Free Center faction in the Knesset, representing it as head of the faction within the Histadrut and serving as editor of its monthly journal, Idan Hadash ("New Era").
• In 1977, he returned to the ranks of the Herut movement.
• In 1966, he was appointed to the Public Committee on Unemployment Insurance.
  From 1979 to 1982, he served as head of the Jewish Agency delegation in Europe.
• He passed away on April 25, 2011.

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