Eliezer Sandberg | |
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 Sandberg in 2017 | |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 2003–2004 | Minister of Science & Technology |
| 2004 | Minister of National Infrastructure |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 1992–1999 | Tzomet |
| 1999 | Israel in the Center |
| 1999 | HaTzeirim |
| 1999–2006 | Shinui |
| 2006 | Hetz |
| 2006 | National Home |
| Other roles | |
| 2005 | Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1962-02-21)21 February 1962 (age 63) |
Eliezer Sandberg (Hebrew:אליעזר זנדברג; born 21 February 1962) is an Israeli former politician who served as a government minister between 2003 and 2004. He was world chairman ofKeren Hayesod in 2010-2018.[1]
Born inHaifa, Sandberg studied law atTel Aviv University, gaining an LLB. He is married with three children.[2]
Sandberg joined theTzomet party and became a member of its secretariat in 1988. He also served as the party's legal adviser and chairman of its Haifa branch. In 1992 he was elected to theKnesset on Tzomet's list. He was re-elected in 1996 and in November 1998 was appointed DeputyMinister of Education. On 23 February 1999 he left Tzomet to become a founding member of theIsrael in the Centre party (later renamed the Centre Party), but on 22 March he left the new party to establish his own faction,HaTzeirim.
On 29 March, HaTzeirim merged withShinui.[3]Sandberg was re-elected on the Shinui list in 1999 and 2003. In February 2003, he was appointedMinister of Science and Technology, a role he held until July 2004 when he becameMinister of National Infrastructure. He left the cabinet on 4 December 2004 when Shinui withdrew from the coalition government.
In January 2006 Sandberg was amongst the Shinui MKs who left the party to establish theHetz. On 5 February he andHemi Doron established theNational Home. Prior to the2006 elections the two joinedLikud, but were not included on its list, and thus lost their seats in the election.[4]
In 2017, Sandberg was named as a suspect in a corruption-tainted multi-million-dollar deal with German shipyard.[5]
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