In 1933, he worked as a journalist for
Haaretz newspaper in London. He was a delegate to several Zionist Congresses, a member of the Zionist Actions Committee. From 1945 to 1949 he was a member of the Supreme Committee to Manage Illegal Immigration. He was a member of Supreme Command of the
Haganah and later a lieutenant colonel in the
IDF. He was elected to the first through fourth
Knessets for the
Progressive Party, which later merged into the
Israeli Liberal Party, for which he was elected to the fifth Knesset. During the fifth Knesset he refused to accept his party's merger into
Gahal and, along with six other members (including
Moshe Kol), formed the
Independent Liberals party. In 1968, Harari resigned from the Independent Liberals and joined the
Labor Party, which merged into the
Alignment, for which he was elected to the seventh Knesset. He was chairman of the House Committee during the first Knesset, and was also member of the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
Harari Resolution Harari is best known as initiator of the
Harari Resolution (; also referred to as the
Harari Proposal) of 13 June 1950, a landmark in Israeli
constitutional law. According to this proposal "the First Knesset assigns to the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee the preparation of a proposed constitution for the state. The constitution will be made up of chapters, each of which will constitute a separate basic law. The chapters will be brought to the Knesset, as the Committee completes its work, and all the chapters together will constitute the constitution of the state." Following the passing of this resolution, the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee set up a sub-committee on the Constitution. Several
Basic Laws have been enacted since, and yet Israel still has no formal constitution. ==References==