Shevah Weiss
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Shevah Weiss (Hebrew: שבח וייס, born 5 July 1935) is an Israeli political scientist and politician.
Weiss was born on July 5, 1935 in Borysław, Poland (now in Ukraine). As a Holocaust survivor, he migrated to Israel in 1947. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1961 and did a PhD in 1969. In 1975 he became a professor at the University of Haifa.
In 1981 he was elected for the first time to the Knesset as a member of the Labor Party. Between 1988 and 1992, he served as a vice speaker, and between 1992 and 1999 – as a speaker of the Knesset. In 2000 he became a president of the Yad Vashem Council. From 2001 to 2003, he served as an Israeli ambassador in Poland where he is known as Szejwach or Szewach Weiss.
Weiss speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian and English.
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