Former Health Minister and Israel Bonds CEO Yehoshua Matza dies Wednesday, his family said. He was 89.
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Matza, a Likud lawmaker, was a key figure in legislating Basic Law: Jerusalem, which enshrined the city as the undivided capital of Israel. He was a member of the Jerusalem City Council for 20 years and served as deputy mayor of the city in the 1970s.
"My acquaintance with Yehoshua, a Jerusalemite at heart and soul, began decades ago," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "I knew about Yehoshua's activity, as a teenager, in the Lehi underground before the establishment of the state. The love of his fellow man, the nation, and the land was at his very core."
