Avraham Sharir

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Avraham Sharir ( Hebrew אברהם שריר; born December 23, 1932 in Iași , Kingdom of Romania ; died March 24, 2017 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli politician and minister .

Life

Avraham Sharir immigrated to Mandate Palestine with his parents as a child . After attending a high school in Givʿatajim, he completed a law degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , from which he graduated as a lawyer . However, he did not work as a lawyer, but initially for ten years from 1954 to 1964 Secretary of the faction of the General Zionist Party ( Tzionim Klalim ) in the Knesset . This was followed by a position as director of the economic department of the Jewish Agency in the United States , before he was director of the coordination office of the economic organizations of workers in Israel from 1967 to 1970. For the next four years he was for the State Department as Consul of Commerce in Atlanta and then from 1972 to 1974 as Consul of Commerce with responsibility for the western United States. This was followed from 1974 to 1977 as general secretary of the Liberal Party ( Miflaga Liberalit Jisra'elit ), which belonged to the Likud party alliance .

On June 13, 1977, he was elected as a representative of Likud for the first time as a member of the Knesset, which he was a member until July 13, 1992. Prime Minister Menachem Begin appointed Sharir for the first time in a cabinet as Minister of Tourism on August 11, 1981. He also held this office under Begin's successors Yitzchak Shamir and Shimon Peres until December 22, 1988. In this position he presented a concept according to which 30 places in Judea and Samaria should be developed into tourist centers. During his tenure as tourism minister, the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Israel's founding in 1988 also fell, but were overshadowed by travel warnings from the State Department to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank , which also led to a decline in tourists from Europe .

He was also Minister of Justice from July 30, 1986 to December 22, 1988 . During this time he also made an official visit on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and the Auschwitz concentration camp and explained:

“There, in the mass grave, I put the little bags of earth from the Holy Land. There were tears in my eyes. I almost burst into tears. It was a symbolic gesture in honor of the ashes of millions who were not allowed to have a grave, whose ashes and bones were scattered in foreign regions ... Everything looks very different in Auschwitz. What may seem important in Israel is minimized here and disappears: the quarrels, the rivalries, the war among Jews. When I walked arm in arm with the Minister of Education Jitzchak Nawon , I understood how artificial the division into parties is [...] In Auschwitz we all saw what can happen to a stateless people. Only here can one understand how justified our insistence on security is. "

In 1990 he left Likud to found the New Liberal Party ( Miflaga Libralit Chadascha ), thereby enabling Shimon Peres to form a minority government. When this plan failed, he rejoined the Likud, but suffered a defeat in the Knesset election, which led to his retirement from politics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knesset Members: Avraham Sharir. In: knesset.gov. Knesset , March 24, 2017, accessed March 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Plans for the West Bank. In: The time . December 24, 1982
  3. ↑ “Something like that has to be expected in Israel” - German tourists in the Holy Land. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . December 23, 1987, archived from the original on July 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Israel fears that many tourists will stay away. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 31, 1988, archived from the original on July 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Nancy Gibbs: The No-Shows at Israel's Party. In: Time . July 25, 1988, accessed March 24, 2017.
  6. ^ John Tagliabue: Israeli Aides to Visit Warsaw. In: The New York Times . April 13, 1988, accessed March 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ Avraham Sharir quoted in Moshe Zuckermann : Values ​​of the culture of remembrance. A deficit? , at: TU Dresden. Accessed March 24, 2017 (PDF; 84 kB; p. 6).
  8. ^ Joel Brinkley: Israeli Coalition Cracks at Last Minute. In: The New York Times . April 12, 1990, accessed March 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Sharir, Avraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אברהם שריר (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician and minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2017
Place of death Tel Aviv