- Yohanan Plesner
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Date of birth =17 January 1972
Place of birth =United Kingdom
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Knesset(s) = 17th (current)
Party =Kadima
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Gov't roles = |Yohanan Plesner ( _he. יוחנן פלסנר, born
17 January 1972 ) is anIsrael ipolitician and a member of theKnesset forKadima .Biography
Born in
England , Plesner served with theSayeret Matkal during hisnational service in the IDF between 1989 and 1994. He went on to study at theHebrew University of Jerusalem , where he gained a BA ineconomics . He moved on to theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University , where he gained an MA in political economics and security studies.Returning to Israel, he worked as head of special projects in the Prime Minister's office under
Ariel Sharon , and as a personal aide to the president of theIsraeli Institute for Democracy .He joined the newly-formed
Kadima party, and in the run-up to the 2006 elections he was placed 31st on Kadima's list. However, the party won only 29 seats. In May 2006 he bcame the party's director general, and, following the resignation ofUriel Reichman andShimon Peres becoming president, Plesner entered the Knesset in October 2007 as a replacement forShlomo Breznitz .External links
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