Aharon Abuhatzira
Aharon Abuhatzira | |
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Minister of Labor & Social Welfare | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1977–1981 | National Religious Party |
1981–1988 | Tami |
1988–1992 | Likud |
Personal details | |
Born | Morocco | 28 October 1938
Died | 21 September 2021 | (aged 82)
Aharon Abuhatzira (Hebrew: אהרן אבוחצירא, 28 October 1938 – 21 September 2021) was an Israeli politician. After serving as mayor of Ramla, he held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He resigned from the cabinet after being convicted of larceny, breach of trust and fraud.[1]
Biography
Aharon Abuhatzira was born in the
Political career
Abuhatzira was elected to Ramla city council in 1969 and became mayor of the city in 1972. He was elected to the
Criminal investigation
In June 1980, the Israel Police began investigating claims that Abuhatzira had received 52,500 shekels from religious institutions in 1978 and 1979 for giving funds to non-existent yeshivas.[2] Although he denied the allegations, stating that they were "provocation and a libel", in December 1980 Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir requested that the Knesset lift Abuhatzira's parliamentary immunity so that he could be charged with bribery.[2] On 13 January 1981 the Knesset plenum voted to remove his parliamentary immunity.[3] After being found guilty on 19 April 1982, he resigned from the cabinet on 30 April, after which fellow Tami MK Aharon Uzan took over his portfolios. He was sentenced to a suspended sentence of four years and three months; thirty months for larceny, eighteen months for breach of trust and fraud by an administrator, and three months for breach of trust by a public servant.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b American Jewish Yearbook 1984 p66
- ^ a b Unholy Ministry Time, 15 December 1980
- ^ The Ninth Knesset Knesset website
External links
- Aharon Abuhatzira on the Knesset website