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Binyamin Temkin

Binyamin Temkin is an Israeli political scientist and former politician who was a Meretz member of the Knesset from 1992 to 1996.

born 1945Meretz Knesset member, 1992 to 1996Secretary general of Ratz and MeretzPolitical science professor at FLACSO

Born: 7 March 1945, Monterrey
Occupation: politician, political scientist, pedagogue
Party: Meretz, Ratz
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Columbia University, Universidad Autónoma Nuevo León

Binyamin Temkin was born in 1945 in Monterrey

Binyamin "Benny" Temkin was born on 7 March 1945 in Monterrey, Mexico. He earned a BA in economics at the University of Nuevo León and took part in leftist student movements in the 1960s.

He moved to Israel in 1971 and served a short time in the IDF. He earned an MA in political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD at Columbia University in New York.

His political work began in a left-wing student group at the Hebrew University, and he was later active in Moked and the Left Camp of Israel. He joined Ratz in 1983, chaired its council from 1985 and became its secretary general in 1989. In 1992 he entered the Knesset on the Meretz list, where he chaired the Subcommittee on Distressed Youth and a parliamentary inquiry committee on youth violence.

He lost his seat in 1996 and then served as secretary general of Meretz until 1999. After he was not elected in 1999, he returned to academic work and moved back to Mexico in 2000. In 2002 he declined to replace Amnon Rubinstein in the Knesset, and in 2003 he joined FLACSO in Mexico as a professor.