Avraham Sharir Explained

Abraham Sharir
Native Name Lang:he
Birth Date:23 December 1932
Birth Place:Iași, Romania
Death Place:Tel Aviv, Israel
Party:Consolidation
Suboffice3:Consolidation
Office3:Faction represented in the Knesset
Subterm3:1977–1990
Suboffice4:Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea
Subterm4:1990
Suboffice5:Consolidation
Subterm5:1990–1992
Office1:Ministerial roles
Suboffice1:Minister of Tourism
Subterm1:1981–1988
Suboffice2:Minister of Justice
Subterm2:1986–1988

Abraham Sharir (Hebrew: אברהם שריר|translit=Avraham Sharir‎; 23 December 1932 – 24 March 2017)[1] was an Israeli politician.

Biography

Sharir was born in 1932 in Iași in Kingdom of Romania, where he attended high school. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964 he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in the Knesset. He was the director of the economics department of the Jewish Agency in the United 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 in Atlanta from 1970 to 1972 and then in Western 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 Consolidation 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.[2] When that move failed, he accepted a request made by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to return to the Likud. This effectively put an end to his political career, and he retired in 1992.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Aderet . Ofer . 2017-03-24 . מת שר התיירות והמשפטים לשעבר אברהם שריר . he . . 2023-01-21.
  2. News: Joel Brinkley. Israeli Coalition Cracks At Last Minute. New York Times. 11 June 2008. 12 April 1990.
  3. News: Uri Melamed. Abrasha, come back home. Makor Rishon. 15 June 2008. 5 December 2007. he.