Born in Stanisławów in Poland (now
Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine), Blumenthal
emigrated to
Mandatory Palestine in 1934. He was a member of the
Bnei Akiva youth movement and joined the
Haganah at the age of 16. During the
1948 Arab–Israeli War he served as a company commander in the
Carmeli Brigade and was later demobilised with the rank of captain. He worked as an accountant, and joined
Solel Boneh in 1951. In 1958 he became comptroller of the Industrial Section at , in 1965 became head of the Finances Section, and from 1977 until 1982 served as its general director. Having joined
Mapai in 1950, Blumenthal became the party's treasurer. After it merged into the
Labor Party in 1968 he became a member of the new party's central committee, bureau and socio-economic committee. In
1981 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, an alliance of the Labor Party and
Mapam. He sat on the Finance Committee until losing his seat in the
1984 elections. In 1986 he became comptroller of the
Histadrut. Blumenthal died at the age of 100 on 1 May 2022. ==References==