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Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל יְשַׁעְיָהוּ שַׁרְעַבִּי; 20 April 1908 – 20 June 1979) was an Israeli politician, minister and the fifth Speaker of the Knesset.
Born in Sadeh, Yemen, to a Jewish weaver by trade, he was sent to Sana’a at an early age where he studied under Rabbi Yihya Qafih (d. 1931). Yeshayahu soon became a member of the Dor Daim movement, before making aliyah in 1929. He became head of the Yemenite Immigrant and Eastern Jewry Department of the Histadrut in 1934, a position he retained until 1948 when he started organizing the immigration of Yemenite Jews, including Operation Magic Carpet.
A member of the Tel Aviv Workers Council, he was also a delegate to the Zionist Congress and the Assembly of Representatives. He served Deputy Secretary of Government and communications officer between the Government and the Knesset between 1948 and 1949.
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