Moshe Nissim

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Moshe Nissim

Moshe (Moshe) Nissim ( Hebrew משה נסים, Born April 10, 1935 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli politician and former minister .

Life

After attending school, he completed a law degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , which he completed with a Master of Law . After his military service as a military prosecutor, he worked as a lawyer.

He began his political career on November 30, 1959, when he was first elected member of the Knesset , where he initially represented the interests of the Liberal Party (Miflaga Liberalit Jisraelit) founded by Peretz Bernstein until September 4, 1961 . In the elections of November 17, 1969, he was re-elected as a member of the Knesset until June 17, 1996. First he was a representative of the Cherut and then the Likud , whose parliamentary group he was also from January 1974 to June 1977.

On January 10, 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin appointed him to the cabinet for the first time as a minister without a portfolio . In this office he was also a member of a delegation to advise the Palestinian self-government and corresponding talks with Egypt and the USA . He then became Minister of Justice on August 13, 1980 and campaigned for the prosecution of Nazi war crimes. He also held this office in the subsequent governments of Yitzchak Shamir and Shimon Peres until April 16, 1986 when he was appointed Minister of Finance. As such, he presented a new economic plan that provided for budget cuts, subsidy cuts, tax breaks for companies and a lowering of the top tax rate. He held this office until December 22, 1988, after which he was again minister with no portfolio. On March 7, 1990, he succeeded Ariel Sharon as Minister for Industry and Trade and held this office until July 13, 1992. At the same time, he was David Levy and Deputy Prime Minister from June 11, 1990 to July 13, 1992 Cabinet of Yitzchak Shamir. After his election defeat, he left the cabinet.

In addition to his political activities, he was also a delegate at the Zionist Congress .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Shlomo Gazit: Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories. 2003, ISBN 0-7146-5489-2 , p. 211.
  2. Efraim Zuroff: Profession: The search with staying power: The hunt for the perpetrators of the genocide. 1996, ISBN 3-89484-555-4 , p. 179.
  3. Dafnah Sharfman: Living Without a Constitution. 1993, ISBN 1-56324-145-5 , p. 160.
  4. Michael Wolffsohn, Douglas Bokovoy: Israel. 2003, ISBN 3-8100-2721-9 , p. 467.