Eliezer Kaplan

Eliezer Kaplan
Kaplan in 1951
Ministerial roles
1948–1952Minister of Finance
1949–1950Minister of Trade & Industry
1952Deputy Prime Minister
Faction represented in the Knesset
1949–1952Mapai
Personal details
Born27 January 1891
Minsk, Russian Empire
Died13 July 1952(1952-07-13) (aged 61)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Signature
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Chairman of the National Committee, addresses the Zionist General Council Meeting in Jerusalem. From right to left: I. Rupaisen, Ben-Zion Mossinson, H. Farbstein, Nahum Sokolow, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Yosef Sprinzak, I. L. Goldberg, Shmaryahu Levin, Eliezer Kaplan (1935)

Eliezer Kaplan (Hebrew: אליעזר קפלן; Belarusian: Эліэзер Каплан; 27 January 1891 – 13 July 1952) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.