Abraham Sharir

Abraham Sharir was born in 1932 in Romania

Sharir was born in 1932 in Iași, Romania. He immigrated to the Land of Israel as a child in the 1940s and went to school in Givatayim and Tel Aviv.

After his army service he moved to Jerusalem, studied law at the Hebrew University and became a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964 he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in the Knesset.

He headed the economics department of the Jewish Agency in the United States from 1964 to 1967. He then ran the coordinating bureau of the employers' economic organizations and served as economic consul in Atlanta and the western United States. In 1974 he became General Secretary of the Liberal Party.

He was elected to the Knesset for the Likud in 1977 and reelected in 1981, 1984 and 1988. He served as Minister of Tourism from 1981 and also as Minister of Justice from 1986.

In January 1990 he left the Likud and joined Shimon Peres' failed attempt to form a government, known as the dirty trick. He returned to the Likud at Yitzhak Shamir's request, and his political career ended in 1992. He died in 2017.