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Danny Saida

Danny Saida is an Israeli politician who served as a Shas member of the Knesset in 2017 and again from 2018 to 2019.

born 1959Shas member of the KnessetA Knesset term of 1 dayChairing Merom HaGalil religious council

Born: 26 April 1959, Safed
Occupation: politician
Party: Shas

Danny Saida was born in 1959 in Safed

Dan "Danny" Saida was born on 26 April 1959. He was born in Kfar Hoshen, also called Safsufa, in the Galilee.

He served in the IDF and was discharged as a staff sergeant. For about two decades he chaired the Merom HaGalil religious council. He was also deputy head of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council and chaired its agriculture committee.

Saida is seen as close to Aryeh Deri, who named him his adviser on settlement and agriculture in 2012. He was placed 14th on the Shas list for the 2015 elections, but the party won 7 seats.

He entered the Knesset on 19 September 2017 in place of Yigal Guetta. Meshulam Nahari then returned to the Knesset under the Norwegian Law and took his seat, so his first term lasted 1 day, 3 hours and 35 minutes. He returned on 22 February 2018 in place of Yitzhak Cohen and served until the end of the 20th Knesset.

On 20 February 2019 he announced that he was leaving politics and would not run in the April elections. He now heads the Shas faction in the Histadrut institutions.