Yehiel Hazan

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Date of birth = Birth date|1958|03|01
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Yehiel Hazan ( _he. יחיאל חזן, born 1 March, 1958) is an Israeli politician.

Political career

Hazan was elected to the Knesset in the 2003 elections as a member of Likud. He chaired the committee on drug abuse, and was a member of several other committees.

During the Knesset term it emerged that he had voted twice during the second and third readings of a bill on the emergency economic plan in May 2003. After voting on his own panel, he also voted using the panel of absent Likud MK Inbal Gavrieli; both votes were cast against the bill. After being accused, Hazan then attempted to tamper with the evidence by removing the machines in question from the storeroom in which they were kept. However, he was caught in the act by the Knesset's CCTV. Nevertheless, despite the clear evidence, on 22 December, 2003 the Knesset narrowly voted (by a majority of one) not to lift his parliamentary immunity. [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=%20420147&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y House calls] Haaretz]

Hazan was convicted and sentenced to four months of community service and a six-month suspended prison term. He appealed the sentence, but was rejected by the Jerusalem District Court on January 17, 2007. [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/814764.html Court rejects ex-MK's appeal of conviction for double-voting] Haaretz, 17 January 2007] He was not re-elected to the Knesset in the 2006 elections.

Hazan also courted controversy for his comments about Arabs, stating "The Arabs are worms. You find them everywhere like worms, underground as well as above." Despite being asked by the Knesset speaker, he refused to retract his comments.

References

External links

* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=737 Yehiel Hazan on the official Knesset website (in English)]