Avi Gabbay

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Avi Gabbay (2017)

Avraham "Avi" Gabbay ( Hebrew אַבְרָהָם "אָבִי" גַּבַּאי; * February 22, 1967 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli manager and politician. From May 2015 to May 2016 he was Minister for Environmental Protection and from July 2017 to July 2019 party leader of the Labor Party .

Life

Gabbay was born in 1967 in the Baka district of Jerusalem as the seventh of eight children to a family who immigrated from Morocco . He served in an intelligence unit in the Israeli army and then studied economics. He completed his studies with an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

He then worked for several years in the Israeli Ministry of Finance, then switched to the telecommunications company Bezeq , where he was first assistant to the CEO and later was responsible for strategic issues on the board. In 2003 he became CEO of Bezeq International and in 2006 he became CEO of the entire company. In 2013 he retired.

In 2014 Gabbay chaired a commission to investigate financial irregularities at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem and propose administrative reform. The most important hospital in Israel had a deficit of more than 1.3 billion shekels and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

In the run-up to the 2015 parliamentary elections in Israel , he founded the Kulanu party together with Moshe Kachlon . He missed entry into the Knesset, but was sworn in as the new Minister for Environmental Protection on May 14, 2015. On May 27, 2016, he resigned as Minister for Environmental Protection “because of the government's shift to the right” after Avigdor Lieberman joined the Israel Beitenu party .

In December 2016 he switched to the Labor Party. In July 2017 he was elected their party leader. On January 1, 2019, three months before the early parliamentary elections, Gabbay terminated the center-left alliance of the Labor Party and Ha-Tnu'a, the Zionist Union . In the Knesset elections on April 9, 2019 , the Avoda fell to 4.45%, the worst result in its history. It only has 6 of the 120 MPs in the Knesset. After Prime Minister Netanyahu failed to form a government after the election, Netanyahu turned to Avi Gabbay shortly before the deadline to avert new elections. After initial hesitation, however, he rejected his party's entry into the coalition. Gabbay, who had promised not to join any Netanyahu-led government before the election, was heavily criticized within his own party for hesitating until he turned down Netanyahu's offer. After calls for resignation were raised against him, Gabbay decided not to run again for the party chairmanship and to withdraw from politics. Amir Peretz was elected as his successor at the beginning of July 2019 .

In early January 2020, the board of directors of the telecommunications company Cellcom approved the appointment of Gabbay as its CEO.

Political positions

Since taking office, he has spoken out against cooperation with the left-wing United List and has largely endorsed the positions of the Netanyahu government in the area of ​​security policy. There is no reason to clear settlements as part of a peace deal, he said; a peaceful Palestinian state would have to accept Jewish residents.

Private

Gabbay lives in Tel Aviv and is married. He has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ תרומות וערבויות למועמדים בבחירות מקדימות State Comptroller of Israel
  2. ↑ Ulrich Schmid: Israel's left is reinventing itself. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 12, 2017, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jochen Stahnke: Dare more Jitzhak Rabin. The new leader of the Israeli Workers' Party is promoting peace and blowing the overthrow of Netanyahu. In: FAZ , July 12, 2017, p. 4. He attended the renowned high school in the Rechavia district .
  4. ↑ Suddenly, Bezeq CEO stepping down Haaretz, January 21, 2013
  5. ↑ Gabbay C'ttee: Take hospital away from Hadassah , Globes, April 8, 2014
  6. ↑ Kahlon officially registers new party kulanu The Jerusalem Post, 12 December 2014
  7. ^ Who's who in Netanyahu's 2015 government . In: Times of Israel , May 15, 2015
  8. ↑ Environment Minister resigns due to a shift to the right by the government . ( Memento from May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) deutschlandfunk.de, May 27, 2016, accessed on May 27, 2016
  9. ↑ Ulrich Schmid: Israel's left is reinventing itself. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 12, 2017, accessed on July 17, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The Israeli opposition alliance breaks up shortly before the parliamentary elections. In: www.nzz.ch. January 1, 2019, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Raoul Wootliff: rejecting laboratory chief admits weighing, then, last-minute offer to join coalition. Retrieved July 3, 2019 (American English).
  12. ^ TOI staff: Labor MK: Party chief Gabbay 'has ended his political career'. Retrieved July 3, 2019 (American English).
  13. ↑ Stuart Winer, TOI staff: After stormy term, Labor chief Gabbay announces he is quitting politics. Retrieved July 3, 2019 (American English).
  14. ↑ Raoul Wootliff: Ailing Labor elects past chairman Amir Peretz to lead it through next election. Retrieved July 3, 2019 (American English).
  15. ↑ Liat Schlesinger: Everything began with the left foot - Plea: Israel's Labor Party must find its left voice again. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office, December 18, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Amotz Asa-El: 25 years after Oslo: The Israeli left gives up in Audiatur online, June 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Gabbay, Avi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אבי גבאי (Hebrew); Gabai, Avi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli manager and politician (Avoda)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem