Nissim Zvili

Nissim Zvili was born in 1942 in Mahdia

Nissim Zvili was born in Mahdia, Tunisia, in 1942. In 1954 he moved to Israel with his parents and settled in Moshav Olesh. In 1956 he was sent to the Nahalat Yehuda youth village.

He graduated from an agricultural high school and served in the IDF Paratroopers Brigade. He later studied political science at Bar-Ilan University and public administration at Oxford and Cambridge.

He began his political work in the 1980s and became secretary general of the Moshav movement. He headed settlement departments at the Jewish Agency and the Zionist Organization. He entered the Knesset for Labor in 1992, was reelected in 1996, and served as party secretary general until 1998.

In 1999 he left Labor to help found the Center Party but did not run in that year's elections. In October 2002 he became Israel's ambassador to France. He later served as president of Alstom Israel and acting CEO of General Electric Israel.