Gonen Segev

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Gonen Segev ( Hebrew גונן שגב; Born January 6, 1956 in Kirjat Motzkin , Israel) is an Israeli doctor and former politician of the Israeli parties Tzomet and Ji'ud . He was a member of the Knesset from 1992 to 1996 and Israel's Minister for Energy and Infrastructure from 1995 to 1996 . In the mid-2000s he was committed to several crimes such as u. a. convicted of drug smuggling and then served a prison term of several years in Israel .

Life

Gonen Segev trained as a farmer. He did his conscription in the Israeli army and achieved the rank of captain . Segev studied medicine at Ben Gurion University in the Negev . He also completed a specialization in administration at Tel Aviv University . He worked as a pediatrician .

From the early to mid-1990s, Segev was involved in politics. After he left in 1996, he joined a company that wanted to build power plants in the People's Republic of China and made numerous trips abroad. Later he worked in international trade. In 2004 he was arrested in Israel after he had previously worked in the Netherlands at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol a . a. was suspected of smuggling drugs . After almost a year in custody , he made a partial confession. In 2005 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and two and a half years probation for drug smuggling and forgery of documents . In 2007 his license as a doctor was revoked because of his criminal activities.

After his release, he left Israel and has since lived in Nigeria , where he settled as a doctor in Abuja . Using his mother's maiden name as “Dr. Gonen S. Wundermann ”he opened a private clinic in 2013, which looked after not only local but also numerous Israeli and other foreign patients. He married a German woman and later acquired German citizenship. In May 2018, he was arrested while trying to enter Equatorial Guinea . The Israeli government applied for extradition and had Segev brought to Israel by intelligence officials. There he was interrogated in solitary confinement for several days.

politics

In the early 1990s, Segev was won over to politics by his neighbor Rafael Eitan , the founder of the ultra-nationalist Tzomet party . In 1992 he moved into the Knesset as a Tzomet member and "Eitan's Crown Prince" ( Der Spiegel ) . Segev was a member of the 13th Knesset and was a member of parliament until it expired in June 1996. However, he fell out with Eitan, left Tzomet and founded the Ji'ud party at the beginning of 1994 together with two other Knesset members and former Tzomet members, Alex Goldfarb and Esther Salmovitz , which was oriented a little further to the left. When Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sought a majority for the Oslo Agreement in the mid-1990s , the Ji'ud party entered the government. Segev became Minister of Energy and Infrastructure on January 9, 1995. A few months later, he and his party friend Goldfarb approved the "Oslo B" agreement in the Knesset and met with criticism in the media and in public: his party was accused of having been bribed with ministerial posts, and Segev was considered a "turning neck." “ (Mirror) . After Rabin's assassination in November 1995, he belonged to the subsequent government of Shimon Peres and held his ministerial office until June 18, 1996.

After Goldfarb and Salmovitz left Ji'ud in late November 1995 to form the Atid party , Segev was the only Ji'ud party member in the Knesset. In the election for the 14th Knesset in May 1996, he did not run again and withdrew from politics after the 13th Knesset.

Espionage litigation

On June 15, 2018, charges were brought against Segev in the Jerusalem District Court. He is accused of having shared sensitive information with Iran for 6 years. It is said to have been information about the energy sector, security locations, certain buildings and officials in security committees. On January 9, 2019, Segev was found guilty by the court after reaching an agreement with prosecutors. In return for a confession, the sentence was set at eleven years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Knesset Members →  Gonen Segev . Information on the website of the Knesset , Israel. English; Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c Marian Blasberg: Pills for the children. How an Israeli minister became a drug smuggler . In: Der Spiegel No. 32/2005 of August 8, 2005, p. 57. Accessed April 9, 2013.
  3. ↑ Crime: Ex-minister smuggles chocolate-coated ecstasy pills . On: Spiegel Online , Panorama section of April 22, 2004. Accessed April 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ Segev's imprisonment . Retrieved from : Israel Today (www.israelheute.com) March 30, 2005. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Abubakar Adam Ibrahim: Disgraced ex-Israeli minister runs Abuja clinic without license for years. In: Daily Trust of June 24, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018
  6. ↑ Dominik Peters: Alleged spy with a German passport: Dr. Strange. In: Spiegel Online from July 6, 2018, accessed on November 14, 2018
  7. ↑ Former Minister Segev is said to have spied for Iran In: Israelnetz.de , June 19, 2018, accessed on June 30, 2018.
  8. ↑ Israeli ex-minister admits espionage for Iran. In: Spiegel Online. January 9, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  9. ^ Former Minister Segev condemned. In: Israelnetz .de. January 9, 2019, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Segev, Gonen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli doctor, Israeli energy minister (1995–1996)
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirjat Motzkin