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Abraham Poraz

Avraham Poraz is an Israeli lawyer and politician who served in the Knesset from 1988 to 2006 and as Minister of the Interior from 2003 to 2004.

born 1945Co-founding the Shinui movementIsrael's Minister of the InteriorFounding the Hetz party

Born: 9 August 1945, Bucharest
Occupation: politician, lawyer
Party: Shinui, Meretz, Hetz
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abraham Poraz was born in 1945 in Bucharest

Poraz was born in Bucharest, Romania, on 9 August 1945. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1950 and attended the Alliance high school in Tel Aviv.

He served in the investigations department of the Military Police. He then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and became a lawyer.

In 1974 he was among the founders of the Shinui movement. He sat on the Tel Aviv city council from 1983 to 1988 and headed the project to set up Channel 2, cable TV and regional radio. He entered the Knesset in 1988 and later chaired its Economics Committee.

Ariel Sharon appointed him Minister of the Interior in 2003, and he was dismissed in December 2004 with the other Shinui ministers after they voted against the state budget. In 2006 he lost second place on the Shinui list and founded the Hetz party, which did not pass the electoral threshold.

He returned to legal practice. He was elected to the Tel Aviv city council on the Secular Greens list in 2018 and again in 2024. He is married with 2 children.