Yuri Stern

Yuri Stern (Hebrew יורי שטרן; born March 29, 1949 in Moscow, Soviet Union, † January 16, 2007 in Jerusalem, Israel) was an Israeli politician and member of the 14th to the 17th Knesset.

Life

Yuri Stern, after completing his degree in Economics from 1971 to 1981 at the University of Moscow as a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics. From 1978 to 1981 he was active in the Zionist movement in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel in 1981 finally. After his naturalization he was in the years 1983 to 1985 head of El- David settlement, and from 1983 to the mid-1990s he campaigned for various organizations that fought for the naturalization of Jews from the Soviet Union, which he partly had also founded.

Policy

Stern was first elected in 1996 in the 14th Knesset as a list candidate of the Israeli Yisrael Be'aliyah. In 1999 he joined up for the Israel Beiteinu party and was re-elected. In his time as a politician, he worked on various committees and worked among others in the fields of business and work, but also strove to expatriate Jews. From March 2001 to March 2002, he was appointed deputy in the Prime Minister 's office. The choice of 17 Knesset in 2006, he was re-elected on the list of Israel Beiteinu party, which for nearly three months at the time of his death, again part of a coalition government under Ehud Olmert. Stern was one of the ultra - nationalist circles in Israel; he compared to radical Islam with Nazism, claiming a connection between radical Muslim circles and neo-Nazi movements. Stern leaned strictly from each withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as the evacuation of Israeli settlements established there. Stern was the founder and chairman of the Committee for Christian friends in the Knesset and examined in particular the cooperation with fundamentalist evangelical Christians, who he described as the " most reliable ally " Israel. He died on 16 January 2007 of cancer.

Author

Stern published several articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post, and numerous articles and chapters in books on economics in the USSR.

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