Eliezer Sandberg
Eliezer Sandberg | |
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Israel in the Centre | |
1999 | HaTzeirim |
1999–2006 | Shinui |
2006 | Secular Faction |
2006 | National Home |
Other roles | |
2005 | Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Personal details | |
Born | Haifa, Israel | 21 February 1962
Eliezer Sandberg (Hebrew: אליעזר זנדברג, born 21 February 1962) is an Israeli former politician who served as a government minister between 2003 and 2004.
Biography
Born in
Israel 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 merged HaTzeirim into Shinui.[1]
Sandberg was re-elected on the Shinui list in 1999 and 2003, and in February 2003 was appointed
Minister of National Infrastructure
. He left the cabinet on 4 December 2004 when Shinui left the coalition government.
In January 2006 Sandberg was amongst the Shinui MKs which left the party to establish the Secular Faction. On 5 February he and Hemi Doron left the new faction to establish the National Home. Prior to the 2006 elections the two joined Likud, but were not included on its list, and thus lost their seats in the election.[2]
In 2017 he was named as a suspect in a corruption-tainted multi-million-dollar deal with German shipyard.[3]
References
- ^ Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset website
- ^ Politics: Filling in the blanks[permanent dead link] The Jerusalem Post, 10 February 2008
- ^ Ex-minister Eliezer Sandberg named as suspect in widening submarines probe Times of Israel, 4 September 2017
External links
- Eliezer Sandberg on the Knesset website