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Yuli Edelstein, MK
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Yuli Edelstein was born in 1958 in Chernovitz (part of the former USSR). He studied foreign
languages at the Moscow Institute for Teacher Training.
A former aliya activist and Hebrew teacher in Moscow and a Prisoner of
Zion (1984-87), he immigrated to Israel in 1987.
In 1990 he graduated from the Jerusalem Fellows Program, and from 1990-93 was a Department Head
at the Melitz Center for Zionist Education.
In 1993-94 he served as an advisor to then opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu.
He was a founding member of Yisrael ba-Aliya in 1996, and has been a member of Knesset since May of that year.
Yuli Edelstein served as Minister of Immigrant Absorption, from June 1996-July 1999, and as Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption from March 2001 until February 2003.
He is married and has two children.
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