Roman Bronfman

Roman Bronfman was born in 1954 in Chernivtsi

Roman Bronfman was born on 22 April 1954 in Chernivtsi, then in the Soviet Union and now in Ukraine, to a Jewish family. He studied at Chernivtsi University from 1971 to 1976. He worked as a journalist and wrote for newspapers in Moscow and Leningrad.

He immigrated to Israel in 1980 and served in the Israeli Air Force. He later studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received a PhD in 1989. From 1986 to 1993 he taught at the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa.

In the 1990s he wrote for the Russian-language newspaper Aleph and for Maariv, and was an announcer on the Russian-language service of Kol Israel. In 1993 he was elected to the Haifa City Council and founded the city's immigrant absorption authority. He was also deputy head and later head of the Zionist Forum.

In 1996 he was elected to the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah and later led the Democratic Choice party. He sat on many Knesset committees and in 2005 proposed a bill to raise the legal amount of cannabis a person may hold. He lost his seat in the 2006 election.

In 2006 he founded a holding company with his eldest son, Zvi. In 2013 he helped found a public protection association.