Uzi Baram

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Date of birth = Birth date and age|1937|4|6
Place of birth = Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
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Date of death =
Place of death =
Knesset(s) = 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th
Party = One Israel
Former parties = Alignment
Labor Party
Gov't roles = Minister of Tourism
Minister of Internal Affairs|

Uzi Baram ( _he. עוזי ברעם, born 6 April 1937) is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Tourism and Minister of Internal Affairs during the 1990s.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era, Baram's father Moshe was a politician who served as Minister of Labour and Minister of Welfare and was a Knesset member for Mapai and the Alignment. Uzi gained a BA in political science and sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Whilst at university he was chairman of the Students Union.

He was elected to the Knesset in 1977 on the Alignment's list, an election in which his father lost his seat. Re-elected in 1981, 1984, 1988 and 1992 (by which time the Alignment had become the Labor Party, he was appointed Minister of Tourism in Yitzhak Rabin's government in July 1992. In February 1995 he also became Minister of Internal Affairs, serving until June that year when David Libai was appointed to the post. When Shimon Peres formed a new government following Rabin's assassination, he remained Minister of Tourism.

Although he retained his seat in the 1996 elections, Likud formed the government and Baram lost his place in the cabinet. He was re-elected in 1999 on the One Israel list (an alliance of the Labor Party, Gesher and Meimad), but resigned from the Knesset in February 2001, and was replaced by Effi Oshaya.

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