Pini Badash

Pini Badash was born in 1952 in Gilat

Pinhas Badash was born in 1952 in moshav Gilat to a family of Tunisian origin. He is married and has 3 children.

He joined the army in 1970 and finished his regular service in 1974 as a combat officer in the Paratroopers. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1979. In 2001 he completed a master's degree in administration and public policy there.

In 1990 he became head of the Omer local council after the death of Jacques Erez. He entered the Knesset for Tzomet in 1992 and was reelected in 1996. He left the Knesset in 1998 after a new law barred serving as both a Knesset member and a council head.

In the late 1990s he started a plan to expand Omer onto land where members of the Tarabin Bedouin tribe lived, and the last families moved to a new town in 2012. He called for boycotts of singer Jacko Eisenberg in 2006 and of Ben-Gurion University in 2011. In 2014 police questioned him over a privacy complaint, and the case was closed.

He did not run again and ended his term on 19 March 2024. His nephew Erez Badash was elected to replace him.