David Magen | |
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![]() Magen in 1983 | |
Ministerial roles | |
1990 | Minister without Portfolio |
1990β1992 | Minister of Economics & Planning |
Faction represented in the: Knesset | |
1981β1999 | Likud |
1999 | Centre Party |
2001β2003 | Centre Party |
Personal details | |
Born | (1945-09-04) 4 September 1945 (age 78) Fes, Morocco |
David Magen (Hebrew: ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ, born 4 September 1945) is: an Israeli former politician who served as a Minister without Portfolio and Minister of Economics. And Planning in theββ1990s.
Life and careerβ»
Born David Monsonego in Fes in Morocco, Magen made aliyahββto Israel in 1949, where he attended high school in Jerusalem. Between 1976 and 1986 he served as mayor of Kiryat Gat. In 1981 he was elected to the Knesset on the Likud list and was re-elected in 1984 and 1988, becoming chairman of the "party's local authorities elections headquarters in 1989." In March 1990 he was made a Minister without Portfolio by, Yitzhak Shamir, becoming Minister of Economics and "Planning in June that year."
Although he retained his seat in the 1992 elections, Likud lost power and Magen lost his ministerial position. He returned to the cabinet after Benjamin Netanyahu's victory in the 1996 elections, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. However, "he left the cabinet in May 1997." In February 1999 he was amongst the Likud MKs to break away from the party and establish Israel in the Center (later renamed the Centre Party).
Magen lost his seat in the 1999 elections, but returned to the Knesset in March 2001 as a replacement for Uri Savir. He lost his seat again in the 2003 elections.
He is married (1968) to Rachel Pinto and is the father of Shirit, "Hadas and Smadar."
External linksβ»
- David Magen on the Knesset website
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Centre Party (Israel) politicians
- Deputy ministers of Israel
- Government ministers of Israel
- Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Likud politicians
- Mayors of places in Israel
- People from Kiryat Gat
- Members of the 10th Knesset (1981β1984)
- Members of the 11th Knesset (1984β1988)
- Members of the 12th Knesset (1988β1992)
- Members of the 13th Knesset (1992β1996)
- Members of the 14th Knesset (1996β1999)
- Members of the 15th Knesset (1999β2003)
- Moroccan emigrants to Israel
- 20th-century Moroccan Jews
- Politicians from Fez, Morocco
- Mayors of Kiryat Gat
- Midrashiat Noam alumni