Yitzchak Modai

Modai with his wife Michal Har'el at the wedding in 1953

Yitzchak Modai (Yitzhak Moday) ( Hebrew יצחק מודעי* January 17, 1926 in Tel Aviv ; † May 14, 1998 ibid) was an Israeli politician and long-time minister .

biography

After attending a high school in Tel Aviv and the Technion in Haifa , he completed a law degree at the branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Tel Aviv. In addition to law, he also studied economics at the London School of Economics . He served in the armed forces (IDF) from 1951 to 1953 as deputy military attaché at the embassy in London , where he was also a member of a ceasefire commission . After retiring from military service with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1953, he worked as a lawyer . In 1961 he became chairman of the Technion Alumni Association.

In 1961 he joined the Liberal Party ( Miflaga Liberalit Jisra'elit ) newly founded by Peretz Bernstein and was a member of the party board of directors from 1965 to 1968. From 1969 to 1973 he was President of the Herzliya Municipal Council . In 1969 he also became Vice President of the American- Israeli Chamber of Commerce and was also chairman of the Association of the Advertising Industry from 1971 to 1973.

His national political career began on January 21, 1974 with the election of a member of the Knesset , in which until July 13, 1992 the interests of the party for the promotion of Zionist ideas and then the New Liberal Party ( Miflaga Libralit Chadascha ) within the Likud represented.

On June 20, 1977, Prime Minister Menachem Begin appointed him Minister of Energy and Infrastructure in his cabinet and held this office until August 5, 1981. He was also Minister of Communications from January 15, 1979 to December 22, 1980. In the subsequent cabinet of Begin he was initially minister without portfolio from August 5, 1981 to October 19, 1982 , before he was then again Minister for Energy and Infrastructure and held this office in the subsequent cabinet of Yitzchak Shamir until September 13, 1984 . In Shimon Peres' cabinet , he was Minister of Finance until April 16, 1986, and then Minister of Justice until July 23, 1986. As such, he not only presented a law punishing denial of the Holocaust , but also publicly stated that Israel had sufficient incriminating material on charges of war crimes against the former Austrian Secretary General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim . As finance minister, he developed the “direct integration policy” according to which the government grants each immigrant an “integration package” in cash that the immigrant can use for a purpose of his choosing. In the subsequent government of Shamir he was again minister without portfolio from October 20, 1986 to December 22, 1988. Shamir then appointed him Minister of Economics and Planning in his cabinet, which was in office until June 11, 1990. Most recently he was again finance minister in the Shamir government until July 13, 1992.

After his election defeat in 1992, he also resigned from the cabinet.

Publications

• Erasing Zeros , 1988

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• Homepage of the Knesset
• Minister of Finance, Past Finance Ministers

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernard Avishai: The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy . Helios Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58115-258-6 , pp. 333 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Teddy Preuss: Energy: Electricity for have-nots. In: zeit.de. February 6, 1981. Retrieved March 16, 2017 . 
3. ^ Prohibition of Denial of Holocaust Law. (No longer available online.) In: wihl.nl. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 26, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
4. ↑ AROUND THE WORLD - Israeli Official Says He Would Try Waldheim. In: nytimes.com. May 23, 1986, accessed March 16, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Keren Hayesod: The New Israelis: 15 Years After the Gates of the Former USSR opened. In: nahost-politik.de. January 7, 2005, accessed on March 16, 2017 (Compiled from an article by Sever Plotzker. Published in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth). 
6. ↑ Review: Israel - Soviet Union: Meeting on the Sabbath. DIE ZEIT Archive: Issue 39/1990. (No longer available online.) In: zeit.de. September 21, 1990, archived from the original on January 6, 2017 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.