{{Short description|Israeli politician (1933–1982)}} {{Infobox officeholder |image = Moshe Harif (00360271).jpg |caption = Harif in the early 1980s |birth_date = 2 June 1933 |birth_place = Sosnowiec, Poland |death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|1|16|1933|6|2|df=y}} |death_place = |office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset |suboffice1 = Alignment |subterm1 = 1981–1982 }}
'''Moshe "Moussa" Harif''' ({{langx|he|משה "מוסה" חריף}}; 2 June 1933 – 16 January 1982) was an Israeli politician and kibbutz activist.
==Biography== Born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1933 to a Jewish family, Harif immigrated to Mandatory Palestine the following year. He attended Beit Hinuch high school in Jerusalem, and went on to study architecture and urban construction at the Technion.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=חבר הכנסת משה חריף |trans-title=Member of the Kneesset Moshe Harif |url=https://m.knesset.gov.il/mk/Apps/mk/mk-print/424 |access-date=2025-12-15 |website=Knesset}}</ref>
In 1952 he joined Kibbutz Tzora. He became a member of the {{ill|Meuhedet|he|התנועה המאוחדת}} movement, and served as its co-ordinator in the Jerusalem area from 1953 until 1955, and as its secretary from 1958 until 1959. Between 1968 and 1974 he worked in the planning department of Kibbutz HaMeuhad. He later became secretary of Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim and helped establish the United Kibbutz Movement, a merger of the two organisations.<ref name=":0" /> ==Political career== In 1981 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. However, he died in mid-January the following year in a traffic collision that also resulted in the deaths of his wife and son.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|date=18 January 1982|title=Moshe Harif, Wife and Son Killed in a Traffic Accident|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/moshe-harif-wife-and-son-killed-in-a-traffic-accident|author-last=|author-first=|access-date=15 December 2025|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref> His seat was taken by Edna Solodar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=גב' עדנה סולודר |trans-title=Mrs. Edna Solodar |url=https://israel-prize.education.gov.il/israel-prize-recipients/pras-israel-catalog/edna-soloder/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250107052101/https://israel-prize.education.gov.il/israel-prize-recipients/pras-israel-catalog/edna-soloder/ |archive-date=2025-01-07 |access-date=2025-12-15 |website=Israel Prize |language=he-IL}}</ref>
==Legacy== Neve Harif, a new kibbutz established in 1983, was named after him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=קיבוץ נווה חריף |trans-title=Kibbutz Neve Harif |url=https://www.eilot.org.il/neve-harif/ |access-date=2025-12-15 |website=Hevel Eilot Regional Council}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{MKlink|id=424}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Harif, Moshe}} Category:1933 births Category:1982 deaths Category:People from Sosnowiec Category:Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Category:Jews from Mandatory Palestine Category:Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Category:Road incident deaths in Israel Category:Kibbutz Movements secretaries Category:Alignment (Israel) politicians Category:Members of the 10th Knesset (1981–1984)