Marina Solodkin

Marina Solodkin (Hebrew מרינה סולודקין, Russian Марина Солодкина / Marina Solodkina; born May 31, 1952 in Moscow, † March 16, 2013 in Riga, Latvia) was an Israeli politician of Russian origin.

Solodkin completed 1969-1974 at Moscow University to study geography. In 1981, she earned a Ph.D. (Russian кандидат наук, Candidate of Sciences '). 1975-1990 she taught at the All-Union Financial Economic Institute. 1987-1990 she also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Economics of the University. In 1991 she emigrated to Israel. 1991-1996 she worked at the Mayrock Centre for Russian and East European research at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Solodkin was for Jisra'el ba - Aliya first elected to the Knesset in 1996. She was Deputy Minister of Immigration from August 1999 to July 2000. When the party in 2003 joined the Likud, she moved first in this fraction, then in 2005 it was but to those Members who founded Kadima ( initially under the name Achrajaut Le'umit ). In the 2006 general election, she was elected as a Sixth on the Kadima list in the 2009 election than in the Tenth Knesset. At the general election in 2013, they did not occur, since Kadima hardly had chances of getting a seat in the Knesset.

Solodkin also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines and books. She was married and had two children. Most recently, she lived in Ashkelon.

Solodkin died at the age of 60 of a stroke in a hotel room in Riga, where she participated in a conference against fascism.

Book publications

  • Dictionary of Economic History (Russian, 1995)
  • Civilization complaints: Soviet Jewry in Israel in the 1990s (Russian, 1996)
  • Not yet a generation of the wilderness (Hebrew )
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