Mizrahi, Moshe (policeman)

Moshe Mizrahi, the seventh of eight children in the family, was born in 1950 in Tiberias. During military service during the exercises, he was seriously injured, losing his right eye ^[2] ; He retired with the rank of Rav-Turai (Junior Sergeant) ^[3] . He graduated from Tel Aviv University ^[4] with a first degree in law.

In 1976, Mizrahi joined the police as a prosecutor. During the police career, he headed the investigative department of the Jaffa District Office, and later commanded the Judea Police Department. He held this position in 1994, when Baruch Goldstein carried out an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron ^[2] . From 1995 to 1997, Mizrahi headed the academy for senior police officers ^[3] .

In 1997, Mizrahi was appointed the head of the National Division for International Investigations. In this position, he led, inter alia, an investigation into the ties between the Israeli economic and political elite and international criminal circles. The activities of the Mizrahi department led to indictments against the former owners of the Maariv media concern Ofer and Yaakov Nimrodi and businessman Grigory Lerner . In one of the investigations, the police received permission from the court to listen to telephone conversations of Avigdor Lieberman , who had recently held the post of director of the office of the Prime Minister of Israel ^[2] . Lieberman was suspected of having connections with the international underworld, and the court gave permission to wiretap conversations on specific, pre-agreed topics. However, further suspicions were announced that Mizrahi had arbitrarily expanded the range of topics on which transcripts of Lieberman’s conversations were compiled ^[5] .

In 2001, Mizrahi was appointed head of the Israeli Police Investigation Department ^[3] , despite suspicions of abuse of wiretapping and objections by Police Inspector General Shlomo Aaronishki . In his new position, he continued the investigation against Lieberman, and also launched investigations against the incumbent Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his sons. ^[2] In 2004, on the recommendation of legal advisers to the Israeli government, Elyakim Rubinstein and Meni Mazuz (and contrary to the opinion of Attorney General Edna Arbel ), Acting Minister of Homeland Security Gideon Ezra announced the transfer of Mizrahi from the investigation department to another position ^[5] . From the beginning of 2005 to the middle of 2006, Mizrahi was the head of the Israeli police department of civil affairs and civilian squads ^[3] .

After retiring from the police in 2006 with the rank of major general, in 2008 Mizrahi nominated himself as chairman of the local council of Shoham in the Central District of Israel ^[6] . In the local elections, however, he scored only 13% of the vote. At the beginning of 2012, Mizrahi joined the Avoda party, announcing his intention to fight for a place on her list in the upcoming Knesset elections ^[7] .

Mizrahi’s campaign in Avoda turned out to be successful, and he, having taken a real place in her election list, became a member of her party faction in the 19th Knesset . In the Knesset, he was a member of the Legislative Commission , the Commission on the Rights of the Child, and the Special Commission on Foreign Workers ^[3] . At the intra-party primaries, before the next parliamentary elections, Mizrahi took 29th place on the list, which is not considered real ^[8] , and did not enter the Knesset.

• on the Knesset website