On February 9, 1986, Israeli politician Yisrael Galili passed away. Galili was born in Ukraine in 1911 and made Aliyah in 1914. He attended a Tel Aviv public school and then joined the Haganah in 1927. In 1935, Galili became a member of the Central Committee of the Haganah, and during World War II, he played a key role in preparing for a possible German invasion. Eventually, he was promoted to Head of National Staff of the Haganah; during the Israeli War of Independence, he worked to secure supplies for Israeli troops.Galili later served on the First Knesset as a member of Mapam, a socialist-Zionist political party. Though he was not a member of the Second Knesset, he served on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Knessets as a representative of the Ahdut Haavoda Party, which had split from Mapam in 1954. During that time, he served on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Galili was also elected to the Sixth Knesset through the Eighth Knesset as a member of the Alignment and, later, Israel’s Labor Party. From 1966 to 1977, he served as a Minister Without Portfolio.Galili, a trusted advisor to Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Rabin, was also unofficially a key voice in many government decisions. While he served in the Seventh Knesset, Galili released a controversial proposal to expand Israeli developments in territories like the West Bank and Gaza. Some members of Galili's own party opposed the plan, which was subsequently called the Galili Document, and the majority of the suggestions put out were never implemented.Later in his career, Galili stopped running for Knesset but remained an advisor to younger members of his party. Notably, he encouraged Yigal Allon and then Yitzhak Rabin to vie for control of the Labor Party. He also founded the Na’an kibbutz, which is now one of the most populous kibbutzim in Israel.