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Silvan Shalom

16 Jan 2006
 
     
Silvan Shalom, MK
(Likud)
 
  Silvan Shalom
 

Silvan Shalom was born in Tunisia in 1958 and immigrated to Israel in 1959. He holds a degrees in Economics (B.A.) and Accounting (C.P.A.) from Ben-Gurion University, as well as a law degree (L.L.B.) and an M.A. in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University. He is a journalist by profession.

1990 Director-General of the Ministry of Energy
1990-1992 Chairman of the Board of the Israel Electric Company
1992-1993 Deputy Chairman of the Public Council of Youth Exchange
1992 Elected to the Knesset
1992-1996 Member of the Knesset Committee on Economic Affairs; Finance; State Control; Status of Women
Chairman of the Knesset Committee on Energy; Sub-committee on Capital Markets
1996-1997 Member of the Knesset Committee on Economic Affairs; Finance; State Control; Status of Women; Constitution, Law and Justice
Chairman of the Knesset Committee on Energy
Deputy Chairman of the Knesset Sub-committee on Capital Markets
1997-1998 Deputy Minister of Defense
1998-1999 Minister of Science (until July)
1999-2001 Member Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee; Education and Culture Committee; Joint Committee for the Defense Budget; Special Legislative Committee for Not Renewing the Emergency Situation
2001-2003 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Feb 2003-
Jan 2006
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Silvan Shalom has served as a member of the Executive of the Broadcasting Authority and of the Board of the Israel Airport Authority, as well as an advisor to the ministers of Finance, Economy and Planning and Justice. He has published articles in daily newspapers.

He is married and the father of five.

 
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