- Avraham Sharir
MKs
Date of birth = birth date|1932|12|23
Place of birth =Tel Aviv , Mandate Palestine
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Knesset(s) = 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Party =Likud
Former parties = New Liberal Party
Gov't roles = Minister of TourismMinister of JusticeAvraham Sharir ( _he. אברהם שריר, born
December 23 ,1932 ) is a formerIsrael i politician.Biography
Sharir was born in 1932 in
Tel Aviv , where he attended high school. He studied law at theHebrew University and was certified as a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964 he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in theKnesset . He was the director of the economics department of theJewish Agency in theUnited States from 1964 to 1967 and director of the coordinating bureau of the economic organizations of the employers in Israel from 1967 to 1970. He was the economic consul inAtlanta from 1970 to 1972 and then inWestern United States until 1974. From 1974 to 1977 he was General Secretary of the Liberal Party and its chairman of the national board.He was elected to the ninth Knesset in 1977 for the
Likud and again in 1981, 1984 and 1988. He was a member of the finance committee in the ninth Knesset and of the foreign affairs & defense committee in the twelfth. He was the Minister of Tourism in the tenth Knesset and also Minister of Justice in the eleventh.In 1990 he left the Likud to form the New Liberal Party. In April he became involved in "the dirty trick" by joining
Shimon Peres ' attempt to form a narrow government.Cite news
last = Brinkley
first = Joel
title = Israeli Coalition Cracks At Last Minute
work = New York Times
accessdate = 2008-06-11
date = 1990-04-12
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1D91139F931A25757C0A966958260] When that move failed, he accepted a request made by Prime MinisterYitzhak Shamir to return to the Likud. This effectively put an end to his political career, and he retired in 1992.Cite news
last = Melamed
first = Uri
title = Abrasha, come back home
work = Makor Rishon
accessdate = 2008-06-15
date = 2007-12-05
url = http://www.makor1.co.il/makor/Article.faces;jsessionid=3edb07f230d5afc885693f564730b823834eac14ed95.e34Mc3aTbNiTby0LaxmNbxqRchmMe0?articleId=27256&channel=1&subchannel=5 he icon]References
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