Michael Eitan

Michael Eitan (Hebrew מיכאל איתן; born March 6, 1944 in Tel Aviv, the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) is an Israeli politician.

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Eitan comes from the immigrant Jewish family of entrepreneurs in Palestine Hirschsprung from Poland. After finishing school at the City University in Tel Aviv, served from 1963 to the Israeli armed forces, most recently as a sergeant. After his active military service, he studied law at the University of Tel Aviv. His political career began first with the Herut Party.

Eitan was responsible for the improvement of the Minister of Public Service and was a former member of the Knesset of the Likud. In addition, he was Minister of Minister of Science and Technology from July 1997 to July 1998. Besides Benjamin Ben Eliezer, Eitan is regarded as one of the deputies, who are the longest serving and was therefore temporarily as " Knesset Speaker " for the following elections in 2009th He currently resides in the city Kokhav Ya'ir, and was also the founder of this settlement.