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Avraham Poraz

Israeli lawyer and politician

Field	Value
image	Abraham Poraz (00340147).jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Bucharest, Romania
suboffice2	Shinui
office2	Faction represented in the Knesset
subterm2	1988–1992
suboffice3	Meretz
subterm3	1992–1999
suboffice4	Shinui
subterm4	1999–2006
suboffice5	Secular Faction
subterm5	2006
office1	Ministerial roles
suboffice1	Minister of the Interior
subterm1	2003–2004
office6	Other roles
suboffice6	Shadow Acting Prime Minister
subterm6	2005
suboffice7	Shadow Minister of Finance
subterm7	2005
suboffice8	Shadow Minister of Communications
subterm8	2005
suboffice9	Tel Aviv-Yafo City Councillor
subterm9	1983–1988
suboffice10	Tel Aviv-Yafo City Councillor
subterm10	2018–
native_name	אברהם פורז
native_name_lang	he

Avraham Poraz (; born 9 August 1945) is an Israeli lawyer and former politician.

Biography

Poraz was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1945 and immigrated to Israel in 1950. He served in the Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces and later studied law in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer.{{Cite web

From 1983 to 1988 he was a member of the Tel Aviv Municipal Council and chairman of the City Auditing Committee. He was chairman of the Shinui Party Secretariat from 1982 to 1983 and again from 1988 to 1990. From 1984 to 1988 he was head of the project for setting up the Israeli Channel 2, the cable TV and the regional radio.

In 1988 he was elected to the Knesset for Shinui. In the following election, he was elected for Meretz, into which Shinui had merged. He served as a member of the House Committee; the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee; the Ethics Committee; the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and the Finance Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Economics Committee. In February 2003, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

In July 2004 it was revealed that a fellow Shinui party member, Yosef Paritzky, had tried to frame him during the party primary elections.{{Cite news

In the Shinui primary elections to the seventeenth Knesset, he lost the second place in its list.{{Cite news

He is married, and has two children.

References

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