Meir Vilner

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Meir Vilner
מאיר וילנר
Meir Vilner in 1951
Faction represented in the Knesset
1949–1959	Communist Party
1961	Communist Party
1965–1977	Communist Party
1977–1990	Hadash
Personal details
Born	Bar Kovner 23 October 1918 Vilnius, Kingdom of Lithuania
Died	5 June 2003(2003-06-05) (aged 84) Tel Aviv, Israel

Meir Vilner (Hebrew: מאיר וילנר, born Bar Kovner; 23 October 1918 – 5 June 2003) was an Israeli communist politician and Jewish leader of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki), at one time a powerful force in the country. He was the youngest and last living signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.^[1]