Avi Nissenkorn

Avi Nissenkorn was born in 1967 in Israel

Nissenkorn was born in Afula on 20 March 1967. His parents, Israel and Ilana, were physicians who immigrated from Poland. As a youth he was Israel's sprinting champion and ran the 200 m at the 1986 World Junior Championships.

In the IDF he served as a sports instructor at Bahad 4. He earned a law degree at Tel Aviv University, where he met his wife Andrea. The couple has two children and lives in Hod HaSharon.

He joined the Histadrut in the late 1990s, heading its collective agreements department and later the legal department of its trade union division. In 2001 he founded a private firm focused on labor law. He returned to the Histadrut in 2010 to chair the trade union division.

In May 2014 the Histadrut's parliament approved him as chairman after a petition against the process was rejected by the Supreme Court. Under his leadership the Histadrut signed agreements to raise the minimum wage and to shorten the work week to 42 hours. He was also criticized over his handling of contract workers.

In 2019 he joined Benny Gantz's party and entered the Knesset for Blue and White. He was sworn in as Minister of Justice on 17 May 2020. He later chaired the Executive Board of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.