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Avraham Poraz | |
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אברהם פורז | |
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| Ministerial roles | |
| 2003–2004 | Minister of the Interior |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 1988–1992 | Shinui |
| 1992–1999 | Meretz |
| 1999–2006 | Shinui |
| 2006 | Secular Faction |
| Other roles | |
| 2005 | Shadow Acting Prime Minister |
| 2005 | Shadow Minister of Finance |
| 2005 | Shadow Minister of Communications |
| 1983–1988 | Tel Aviv-Yafo City Councillor |
| 2018– | Tel Aviv-Yafo City Councillor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1945-08-09)9 August 1945 (age 79) Bucharest,Romania |
Avraham Poraz (Hebrew:אברהם פורז; born 9 August 1945) is an Israeli lawyer and former politician.
Poraz was born inBucharest,Romania in 1945 andimmigrated to Israel in 1950. He served in theMilitary Police Corps of theIsrael Defense Forces and later studied law in theHebrew University inJerusalem and was certified as a lawyer.[1]
From 1983 to 1988 he was a member of theTel Aviv Municipal Council and chairman of the City Auditing Committee. He was chairman of theShinui Party Secretariat from 1982 to 1983 and again from 1988 to 1990. From 1984 to 1988 he was head of the project for setting up theIsraeli Channel 2, the cable TV and the regional radio.[1]
In 1988 he was elected to theKnesset for Shinui. In the following election, he was elected forMeretz, into which Shinui had merged. He served as a member of the House Committee; the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee; the Ethics Committee; the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and the Finance Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Economics Committee. In February 2003, he was appointedMinister of the Interior byPrime MinisterAriel Sharon.[1]
In July 2004 it was revealed that a fellow Shinui party member,Yosef Paritzky, had tried to frame him during the party primary elections.[2] Paritzky confessed and was fired from his position asMinister of Infrastructure. In December 2004, after Shinui had voted against the state budget for 2004, Sharon fired Poraz along with the rest of his faction.[3]
In the Shinui primary elections to the seventeenth Knesset, he lost the second place in its list.[4] He left Shinui with ten other MKs and founded the Secular Faction, later renamedHetz, which failed to pass theelectoral threshold.[3] He then retired from politics and returned to legal practice.[5]
He is married, and has two children.[1]
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