Avraham Sharir

Avraham Sharir ( born December 23, 1932 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli politician and a former minister.

Biography

After attending a high school in Tel Aviv, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained admission as a lawyer. However, he was not a practicing lawyer, but first ten years from 1954 to 1964 secretary of the faction of the Party General Zionists ( Tzionim Klalim ) in the Knesset. Then first he worked as a Director of the Economic Department of the Jewish Agency in the U.S. before he was from 1967 to 1970 director of the Coordinating Bureau of Economic Organizations of workers in Israel. In the following four years he worked for the State Department as an economic consul in Atlanta, and then from 1972 to 1974 as an economic Consul with jurisdiction over the western United States. Following that followed from 1974 to 1977 to work as a secretary general of the Liberal Party ( Miflega Libralit Yisraelit ), which belonged to the Likud party alliance.

On 13 June 1977 he was first elected as a representative of the Likud for the Members of the Knesset, where he remained until July 13, 1992. Prime Minister Menachem Begin called Sharir on August 11, 1981 as Minister of Tourism for the first time in a cabinet. This office he held under Begin's successors Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres made ​​until 22 December 1988. In this office, he presented a concept for the 30 places in Judea and Samaria should be developed into tourist centers. In his tenure as Minister of Tourism also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of Israel in 1988, which were overshadowed by travel warnings from the State Department in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which also led to the decline of tourists from Europe.

In addition, he was also 30 July 1986 until 22 December 1988 Minister of Justice. During this time he also undertook an official visit to mark the 45th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camp in Auschwitz, and commented:

"There, in the mass grave I put the bag of dirt from the Holy Land. There were tears in my eyes. I almost burst into tears. It was a symbolic gesture to honor the ashes of millions who could have no grave, the ashes and bones were scattered in foreign climes ... In Auschwitz, everything looks different. What may seem important in Israel, minimized here and disappears: the quarrels, the rivalries, the war among Jews. As I walked along there with the Education Minister Yitzhak Nawon arm in arm, I understood how artificial but the division into parties ... In Auschwitz we saw all what can a stateless people happen. Only here you can understand how justified is our insistence on safety. "

In 1990, he left the Likud to found the New Liberal Party ( Miflaga Libralit Hadasha ), thereby enabling Shimon Peres to form a minority government. When that failed, he stepped back while the Likud in, but suffered in the election to the Knesset, a defeat that led to his retirement from politics.

Source

  • Homepage of the Knesset
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