Alexander Tzinker

Alexander Tzinker was born in 1953 in Ukraine

Alexander "Sasha" Tzinker was born on 2 January 1953 in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. He was a Prisoner of Zion.

He earned a master's degree at the Polytechnic Institute in Armenia in 1975. In 1988 he received a PhD from the Moscow Scientific Center for Management. He worked as a systems analyst.

Tzinker immigrated to Israel in 1990. In the 1999 elections he was sixth on the Yisrael BaAliyah list and entered the Knesset. In July 1999 he and Roman Bronfman left the party and formed a new faction, later named the Democratic Choice.

He later left the Democratic Choice after disagreeing with Bronfman's line. Before the 2003 elections he founded and led the Citizen and State party, which won 1,566 votes and did not pass the threshold, so he lost his seat. Before the 2006 elections the party was taken over by Avraham Poraz and renamed Hetz.