Alex Goldfarb (Israeli politician)

Alex Goldfarb (Hebrew אלכס גולדפרב, born June 1, 1947 in Seini, Kingdom of Romania ) is a former Israeli politician and member of the Knesset.

Biography

Goldfarb 1963 emigrated from Romania to Israel. After his military service, he founded his own company for building and electrical engineering and was on the board of the Association of Israeli electrical engineer. He studied human resource management and political science at Bar- Ilan University (BA ) and took a degree in business administration at the Michlala LeMinhal near Tel Aviv. Goldfarb was a member of the party Tzomet, a right-wing, secular small party, for which he sat in the 13th Knesset 13 July 1992 until 17 June 1996. After disputes with the Chairman Rafael Eitan, he left the group with two other Tzomet parliamentarians, Gonen Segev and Esther Salmovitz, and, together with these on 7 February 1994, a parliamentary group, which called itself Ji'ud. The Ji'ud supported the policy of the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Goldfarb was appointed on January 2, 1995 Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing, a position he held even in the successor government under Shimon Peres to the end of its term on 18. retained in June 1996. After disputes with the Group Chairman of Ji'ud, Gonen Segev, Goldfarb and Salmovitz founded on 27 November 1995 another splinter group, the Atid.

He became better known by his voting behavior in the debate over ratification of the Oslo II Agreement in the Knesset on 5 October 1995, in which his voice made ​​possible the adoption of the agreement by one vote, although the content of the agreement Goldfarb's previous political beliefs contradicted. Ezer Weizmann later said this: "The agreement is not an agreement. It passed the Knesset by a Majority of one and this would not have succeeded if not for one MK and his Mitsubishi " ( German: The agreement is no agreement has been adopted by the Knesset with a majority of one vote and had no success. if had not been there for them a ministerial post and a Mitsubishi), an allusion to the fact that Goldfarb voted less from national considerations with the government coalition, as to his deputy ministerial posts and it thus entitled to a company car - a Mitsubishi - to keep. The still common in Israeli policy formulation "Mitsubishi agreements" goes back to this incident.

At the next elections to the Knesset joined Goldfarb of the Avodah in, but could not prevail in the primaries for a list position and withdrew from politics. Until 2003 he worked for the Ministry of Defence and in 2004 he started his own business with a company in the security advisory.

A candidate in the presidency of the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council of lost Goldfarb 2009 against the incumbent.