Shaul Amor

Shaul Amor was born in 1940 in Bejaeed

Shaul Amor was born in 1940 in Boujad, Morocco. He lost his parents as a young child and moved to Israel in 1956 with Youth Aliyah. He studied at Kfar Batya.

He served in the Nahal. He studied social work in Haifa and worked as a social worker for several years. In 1971 he became ill with Kaposi's sarcoma, a disease he lived with for the rest of his life.

In 1970 he was appointed to the Karmiel council for the Labor Party, and in 1973 he left the party and was removed from the council. In 1978 he was elected head of Migdal HaEmek for Likud and served about 20 years, leading the creation of the Ramat Gavriel industrial zone. From 1984 to 1988 he sat on the board of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

He entered the Knesset in 1988 and was re-elected in 1992 and 1996, focusing on social issues. In 1998 he ran for president against Ezer Weizman and lost. In 1999 he became Minister without Portfolio in the Netanyahu government, then lost his seat that May.

From 1999 to 2003 he was Israel's ambassador to Belgium. He then retired from politics and died in 2004. He was buried in Migdal HaEmek, where an avenue is named after him.