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Leon Litinetsky

Leon Litinetsky is an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset for the Labor Party from 2008 to 2009 and for Yisrael Beiteinu from 2014 to 2015.

born 1967Knesset member for LaborKnesset member for Yisrael BeiteinuLeningrad siege memorial in Jerusalem

Born: 2 August 1967, Kazan
Occupation: politician
Party: Israel Our Home, Israeli Labor Party
Education: Tel Aviv University, Kazan Federal University

Leon Litinetsky was born in 1967 in Kazan

Leon Litinetsky was born in Kazan in the Soviet Union in 1967. He studied medicine at Kazan State University from 1984 to 1990 but did not finish. He moved to Israel on 1 January 1991.

In Israel he worked at the Israel Electric Corporation and joined its workers' committee in 1995. He studied at the ORT College in Kfar Saba and later took political science at Tel Aviv University. In 1999 he was elected to the Histadrut assembly and became chairman of an organization of Russian-speaking Israelis.

He ran with One Nation in 2003, and after it merged into Labor he entered the Knesset in July 2008 in place of Danny Yatom. He lost his seat in 2009. He entered the Knesset again in November 2014 in place of Gideon Sa'ar and left after the 2015 elections.

In 2016 he was on the Yisrael Beiteinu team in coalition talks and handled a reform raising the old age pension. From 2017 to 2019 he led a project to build a memorial in Jerusalem to Jews who died in the siege of Leningrad, opened in 2020. Since 2021 he has been a board member of the World Jewish Congress-Israel, and he lives in Kfar Saba.