Limor Livnat

Limor Livnat (2014)

Limor Livnat ( Hebrew לימור לבנת, Born September 22, 1950 in Haifa , Israel ) is an Israeli politician who served as a Knesset member of Likud and as Minister of Culture and Sports from 2009 to May 2015. Shortly after the 1992 elections, she became a member of the Knesset on April 14, 1992, replacing Chaim Corfu . In her early days, she chaired the committee that campaigned for equality between women and the parliamentary committee that investigated cases in which men murdered their wives.

politics

Livnat was re-elected in the 1996 election and was appointed Minister of Communications in the government of Binyamin Netanyahu . During her time she tried to intensify competition in the Israeli communications sector through privatization and to weaken Bezeq's monopoly .

The differences between Livnat and Nethanyahu became so acute that Livnat tried in 1997 to end the Likud's leadership by Netanyahu. After the Likud's defeat in 1999, Nethanyahu renounced the Likud leadership . Livnat then supported Ariel Sharon in 1999 so that Sharon would lead the party. After Ariel Sharon 's victory over Ehud Barak in the 2001 elections, she became Minister of Education on March 7, 2001 .

She was re-elected in the 2003 elections and remained Minister of Education until January 14, 2006. She held this office until Likud left the ruling coalition and the ruling coalition was now led by the Kadima. She was re-elected in the 2006 and 2009 elections and was Minister of Culture and Sport from March 31, 2009 to May 14, 2015 .

Livnat was also vice-chairman of the Likud world movement.

Personal views and life

Limor Livnat was born in Haifa. Her family lives in the seventh generation on what is now the national territory. She is the daughter of Azriel Weiss, a fighter from Lehi, who was exiled by the British to imprisonment in Africa, where he spent more than 4 years with his underground comrades until the independence of the State of Israel was declared in 1948. Her mother, Shulamit Livnat, was known as the "singer of the underground" and also played an active role in the struggle for the Jewish settlement policy in Palestine, which aimed to establish a Jewish state. After her military service, she studied general literature at Tel Aviv University . Even during her student days she was politically active in the student cell of the Cherut liberal bloc ( Gachal ). Although openly secular , Livnat is widely considered to be a right-wing conservative, both morally and politically. As a representative of revisionist Zionism , she opposed the Oslo peace process and the loss of control over the West Bank . For these reasons, she was also critical of the US President George W. Bush's Road Map for Peace . She also regularly attends events honoring militant organizations that operated prior to Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, such as the Irgun and Lechi . However, she did not oppose Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan .

In April 2011, Livnat's 25-year-old nephew Ben-Joseph Livnat was shot dead by a Palestinian Authority police officer while attempting to break a Palestinian road blockade after illegally visiting Joseph's grave . Livnat described the shooting of her nephew as a terrorist act. She was "shocked by the murderous attack" and the nephew was "murdered in a cold-blooded and horrible manner" . An IDF report released a month later did not assess the incident as a premeditated terrorist attack, but suggested that the officer acted "maliciously" and with intent to cause harm.

In an interview with Army Radio on December 25, 2011, Livnat, who heads the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Status of Women, said that in ultra-orthodox areas of the country gender segregation should be combated in public transport: “I don't think they are made mandatory should how they have to live " said Livnat, " we should live and let live ... when we talk about a mixed city. However, if there are predominantly Charedim or religiously minded people in a city who reject equality between men and women, the phenomenon of gender segregation in local public transport should be tackled, ” she added.

She lives in Tel Aviv , is married and has two children.

Web links

• Profile of Limor Livnat on knesset.gov.il at the Knesset

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Netanyahu sworn in as Israel's prime minister Haaretz, April 1, 2009.
2. ↑ knesset.gov.il
3. ↑ likud.org.il
4. ↑ Sanders, Edmund, "One Israeli killed, three hurt in West Bank shooting" , Los Angeles Times , 24 April 2011 9:45 am. Accessed 24 April 2011.
5. ↑ Chaim Levinson, "Israelis shot in West Bank tried to break through Palestinian roadblock, probe shows" , Haaretz , April 24 2011th
6. ^ Nir Hasson, "Minister Livnat: My nephew was killed by a terrorist disguised as a Palestinian policeman" , Haaretz , April 24, 2011
7. ↑ wz-newsline.de
8. ^ Pfeffer, IDF: Palestinian police intentionally targeted worshipers at Joseph's Tomb , Haaretz , May 29, 2011