Eitan Cabel

Eitan Cabel was born in 1959 in Rosh HaAyin

Eitan Cabel was born in Rosh HaAyin on 23 August 1959. He was the eldest son of parents who came to Israel from Yemen. He had a religious education and studied briefly at yeshivas.

He joined the IDF in November 1977 and volunteered for the Paratroopers. He later studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but did not finish his degree. In 1985 he was elected head of the students' union.

From 1988 he worked as an aide to Agriculture Minister Avraham Katz-Oz, then to Shimon Peres and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. He entered the Knesset in 1996. In 2005 he was elected secretary general of the Labor Party.

He served as Minister without Portfolio and resigned in 2007 after the Winograd Commission report on the Second Lebanon War. He chaired the Economic Affairs Committee. In 2015 he received an award for parliamentary work from the Israel Democracy Institute.

After a clash with party leader Avi Gabbay, he was placed 15th on the list in 2019 and lost his seat. In September 2019 he left politics and became a director at Rotem Energy. He is married with 4 children.