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Hagai Meirom

Hagai Meirom is an Israeli lawyer and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1988 to 1999.

born 1946Knesset member, 1988 to 1999Chairing the Foreign Affairs and Defense CommitteeTreasurer of the Jewish Agency

Born: 23 September 1946, Afula
Occupation: politician, lawyer, trade unionist
Party: Alignment
Education: Tel Aviv University

Hagai Meirom was born in 1946 in Afula

Hagai Meirom was born in 1946. As a child, his family moved to Kibbutz Yifat.

He volunteered for Shayetet 13 and was wounded during a course. He finished his service as a captain. He then earned a law degree at Tel Aviv University and a master's in law at the University of Haifa, and worked as a lawyer.

He was general secretary of the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth movement and sat on the Histadrut executive. He was elected to the Knesset in 1988 for the Alignment and was re-elected in 1992 and 1996. In his second term he chaired the House Committee and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

In 1999 he left Labor and joined the Center Party, but he lost his seat in that year's elections. He initiated 34 private bills that became law.

He later returned to Labor. In 2006 he was chosen as treasurer of the Jewish Agency, and in 2010 he became board chairman of the Jewish Colonial Trust.