Politicsנסים דהן

Nissim Dahan

Nissim Dahan is an Israeli former politician from Shas who served as Minister of Health from 2001 to 2003.

born 1954Minister of Health, 2001 to 2003Shas Knesset memberHeading the Harish council

Born: 7 May 1954, Morocco
Occupation: politician
Party: Shas

Nissim Dahan was born in 1954 in Morocco

Nissim Dahan was born in Morocco in 1954. His family moved to Israel in 1955. He studied at a yeshiva.

In 1991 he joined the IDF and served in the Military Rabbinate. He worked in the Ministry of Religious Affairs, where he headed its organizations and institutions department. He also sat on the Jerusalem Development Authority for 3 years.

He entered the Knesset for Shas in 1996. He was Deputy Minister of Finance under Ehud Barak until Shas left the coalition in July 2000. As Minister of Health under Ariel Sharon, he banned the import of eggs for in vitro fertilization, a ban that was later overturned.

After the 2003 elections he became Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and lost his ministry. He left politics before the 2006 elections. From 2007 to 2014 he headed the appointed council of Katzir-Harish and then Harish, and from 2014 to 2016 he was rabbi of a synagogue in Jerusalem.