Srir, Abraham

Sharir was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv, where he attended high school. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964, he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in the Knesset . He was director of the economic department of the Jewish Agency in the United States from 1964 to 1967 and director of the coordination bureau of economic organizations of employers in Israel from 1967 to 1970. He was consul for economics in Atlanta from 1970 to 1972, and then in the western United States until 1974. From 1974 to 1977, Sharir was the Secretary General of the Liberal Party and the chairman of its national council.

He was elected to the Knesset of the ninth convocation in 1977 from the Likud party , then was elected in 1981, 1984 and 1988. He was a member of the Finance Committee in the Ninth Knesset and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense in the Twelfth. He served as Minister of Tourism in the tenth convocation of the Knesset, as well as Minister of Justice in the eleventh.

In 1990, he left the Likud to form a new Liberal Party. In April, he participated in a “dirty trick” by joining Shimon Peres ’s attempt to form a minority government. Despite this, he accepted the offer of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to return to the Likud. This put an end to his political career, and he retired in 1992.

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