Yitzhak Moda'i
Yitzhak Modai ( Yitzhak Moday ) ( born January 17, 1926 in Tel Aviv, † 14 May 1998) was an Israeli politician and long-time minister.
Biography
After attending a high school in Tel Aviv and the Technion in Haifa, he graduated in law at the branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. In addition, he studied alongside Law and Economics at the London School of Economics. His service in the armed forces (IDF ) from 1951 to 1953 he served as Deputy Military Attaché at the Embassy in London from where he was also a member of a Ceasefire Commission. Once adopted from military service with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1953, he worked as a lawyer. In 1961 he became chairman of the alumni association of the Technion.
In 1961 he joined the newly formed Liberal Party of Peretz Bernstein ( Miflega Libralit Yisraelit ) and was from 1965 to 1968 Member of the National Board. From 1969 to 1973 he was president of the Municipal Council of Herzliya. In 1969, he was also Vice- President of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce and was also well from 1971 to 1973 Chairman of the Association of the advertising industry.
His national political career began on 21 January 1974 with the election of deputies of the Knesset, in which up to 13 July 1992, the interests of the party to promote the Zionist idea and then the New Liberal Party ( Miflaga Libralit Hadasha ) within the Likud represented.
On 20 June 1977 he was appointed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure in the cabinet and held that office until August 5, 1981. Additionally, he was on 15 January 1979 to 22 December 1980 Minister of Communications. In the subsequent Cabinet of Begin, he was first of August 5, 1981 to October 19, 1982 Minister without portfolio, then again before he became Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and occupy this position in subsequent cabinet of Yitzhak Shamir to the September 13, 1984. In the cabinet of Shimon Peres, he was then up to the April 16, 1986 Finance Minister and thereafter until July 23, 1986 Minister of Justice and placed as such not only a law punishing the denial of the Holocaust before, but also presented publicly is that Israel is sufficient incriminating evidence to charges of war crimes against the former Austrian UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim had. As finance minister, he developed the " direct integration policy," the government each immigrant an " integration package" granted by the cash that can use the immigrants for a purpose of his choice. In the subsequent government of Shamir he was on 20 October 1986 to 22 December 1988 when the Minister without portfolio. After that, he was named Shamir in his reigning until June 11, 1990 the Cabinet of Minister of Economy and Planning. Most recently, he was again up to the July 13, 1992 Minister of Finance in the government of Shamir.
After his election defeat in 1992, he left also from the Cabinet.
Publications
"Erasing Zeros ", 1988
Swell
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- Minister of Finance, Past Finance Minister