Gonen Segev

Gonen Segev (Hebrew גונן שגב; born January 6, 1956 in Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) is an Israeli doctor and former politician. He was from 1992 to 1996 and member of the Knesset from 1995 to 1996, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of Israel. Mid-2000s, he was convicted of several offenses such as, inter alia, drug smuggling and was serving then in Israel several years in prison.

Life

Gonen Segev was trained as a farmer. He came of his military service in the Israeli army and reached the rank of Captain. Segev studied medicine at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev. He also completed a specialization in Management Studies at the Tel Aviv University. He was working as a pediatrician.

From the early to mid 1990s Segev engaged in politics. After retiring in 1996, he joined a company one, wanted to build the power plants in China, and made ​​numerous trips abroad. Later he worked in international trade. In 2004 he was arrested in Israel after he had previously advised in the Netherlands at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Others suspected of smuggling drugs. After almost a year detention he took a partial confession. He was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by two and a half years of probation for drug smuggling and forgery of documents in 2005.

Policy

In the early 1990s Segev was won by his neighbor Rafael Eitan, the founder of the ultra - nationalist party Tzomet, for politics. In 1992 he moved as Tzomet member and " Eitans Crown Prince " a ( Der Spiegel) in the Knesset. Segev was a member of the 13th Knesset, and was up to their expiry in June 1996 deputy. However, he fell out with Eitan, left Tzomet and founded in early 1994 along with two other Knesset members and former members of Tzomet, Alex Goldfarb and Esther Salmovitz, the party Ji'ud that something was oriented to the left. As prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin mid-1990s, a majority of the Oslo agreement sought, the Ji'ud Party joined the government. Segev was on 9 January 1995 Minister of Energy and Infrastructure. The few months later approval by him and his party colleague Goldfarb in the Knesset to the " Oslo B" Agreement came into the media and public criticism: His party was accused of having allowed themselves to be bribed with ministerial posts, and Segev was considered a " turncoat " ( mirror ). After Rabin's assassination in November 1995 he was a member of the subsequent government of Shimon Peres and exercised his ministerial position until 18 June 1996.

After Goldfarb and Salmovitz had left towards the end of November 1995 Ji'ud to form the party Atid, Segev was the only Ji'ud Party member of the Knesset. In the election for the 14th Knesset in May 1996, he no longer went to and retired after the 13th Knesset from politics.