Alex Goldfarb (Israeli politician)

Alex Goldfarb (Israeli politician)

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Name = Alex Goldfarb

Date of birth = Birth date and age|1947|6|1|df=y
Year of Aliyah = 1963
Date of death =
Knesset(s) = 13th
Party = Atid
Former parties = Tzomet, Yiud
Gov't roles =

Alex Goldfarb ( _he. אלכס גולדפרב, born 1 June 1947) is an Israeli politician and electrician.

Biography

Born in the locality Seini, in the Maramureş County of Romania, Goldfarb emigrated to Israel in 1963. He worked as an electrician, amongst others in the Israel Electricity Company, where he was also active in the trade union.

In 1992 he was elected to the thirteenth Knesset as a member of the right-wing secular party Tzomet led by the popular general Rafael Eitan . As Labour won the elections, the Tzomet party remained in the opposition. Goldfarb served as a member of the Knesset's Economics Committee and later a member of the State Control Committee.

On February 7, 1994 Tzomet MKs Goldfarb, Gonen Segev and Esther Salmovitz split from Tzomet to form the Yiud faction. On January 2 1995, Goldfarb became Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction, after the new "Yiud" party joined Yitzhak Rabin's government.

In November 1995 he split also from "Yiud" to form the Atid faction with Salmovitz (who later ran in the primaries for the Likud). Goldfarb held the same deputy minister office again from Movember 22, 1995 to June 18, 1996 in the government that Shimon Peres formed shortly after Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.Goldfarb and Gonen Segev are often perceived as having assured the Knesset majority for the approval of the Oslo agreements in exchange for governmental offices and contrary to the initial ideological platform on which they were elected.

Goldfarb later became a member of the Labor party. He was not elected to the next Knesset, but was later appointed to a position linked to the security industry by then defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. He now is the director of a private company.

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