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Mordechai Mishani

Mordechai "Motti" Mishani was an Israeli lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 2001 to 2003.

1945 to 2013Knesset member for One Israel and GesherPolitical adviser to David LevyChairman of Amidar

Born: 10 April 1945, Tel Aviv
Died: 9 April 2013, Israel
Occupation: politician, lawyer, advocate
Party: One Israel
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mordechai Mishani was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv

Mishani was born in Tel Aviv on 10 April 1945 to a family with roots in Aleppo. He grew up in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood of the city. During his army service he reached the rank of major.

He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated with honors in 1969. He was licensed as a lawyer in 1970 and later ran his own law firm.

At a Likud convention in 1986 he met David Levy, who later made him his political adviser. While Levy was housing minister, Mishani served as a director of several government companies and as chairman of Amidar. In 1993 Benjamin Netanyahu filed a police complaint against him over the hot tape affair, and the case was closed for lack of evidence.

A member of Levy's Gesher party, he was 29th on the One Israel list in 1999, which won 26 seats. He entered the Knesset in February 2001 in place of Eli Goldschmidt and moved to the Gesher faction. He proposed raising the old age pension to 90% of the minimum wage and served until 2003.

After leaving the Knesset he returned to his law firm, which his son Ariel joined in 2008. He died on 9 April 2013. His son Dror Mishani is a writer and editor.