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Eli Aflalo

Eli Aflalo is an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset for Likud and Kadima from 2003 to 2012 and was Minister of Immigrant Absorption from 2008 to 2009.

born 1952Minister of Immigrant AbsorptionFounding member of KadimaCo-chairman of the Jewish National Fund

Born: 8 September 1952, Casablanca
Occupation: politician
Party: Kadima

Eli Aflalo was born in 1952 in Casablanca

Eli Aflalo was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1952. He immigrated to Israel in 1962.

After high school he served in the IDF and was discharged as a staff sergeant.

He was a member of the Afula city council and head of the Migdal Tefen local council from 2001 to 2003. He entered the Knesset on the Likud list in 2003 and became Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor in 2005. In 2004 the Knesset ethics committee barred him from debates on the fuel sector because he owned gas stations.

In 2005 he left Likud and was among the founders of Kadima, and he was reelected on its list. He served as coalition chairman and then as Minister of Immigrant Absorption from July 2008 to March 2009. He sponsored bills on daylight saving time, the volume of advertisements and a database of people convicted of pedophilia.

In 2012 he resigned from the Knesset to become co-chairman of the Jewish National Fund. A 2017 State Comptroller report found flaws in his conduct in that role. He lives in Afula and has 3 children.