Ilan Shalgi

Ilan Shalgi was born in 1945 in Israel

Ilan Shalgi was born on 13 July 1945 with the surname Schnibleg. He grew up in the Nof Yam neighborhood of Herzliya, the son of Mira and Yitzhak.

After his IDF service, in which he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in law from Tel Aviv University.

From 1986 to 1995 he sat on disciplinary and appeals courts of the Israel Bar. He chaired the Friends of Youth Corps from 1987 to 1990 and the board of the National Crude Oil Company from 1993 to 1996. He chaired the Shinui secretariat in 1996 to 1999 and again in 2001 to 2003.

Elected to the Knesset in 2003, he chaired the Education, Culture and Sports Committee and initiated the law that set Herzl Day. In 2004 he served as Minister of Science and Technology and then Minister of the Environment, until Shinui left the coalition in December. He moved to Hetz, which did not pass the threshold in 2006.

He later worked as a lawyer and chairs the Herzl Forum of the Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel. He is married to Professor Ruth Shalgi, has 3 children and lives in Herzliya.