Shaul Gutman

Shaul Gutman was born in 1945 in Rehovot

Shaul Gutman was born in 1945 in Be'erot Yitzhak and grew up in Rehovot. In 1967 he completed a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering at the Technion.

In the army he was operations officer of Battalion 195 during the War of Attrition, under Yossi Peled. He finished his service as a major and went to study at Berkeley. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, he paused his studies and returned to fight.

In 1975 he completed a master's degree and a doctorate in mechanical engineering at Berkeley. He worked for Israel Military Industries, Rafael and NASA laboratories, and became a professor at the Technion. He was a visiting professor at universities in the United States in 1981 and 1991.

In 1992, at Rehavam Ze'evi's invitation, he was elected to the Knesset as number 2 on the Moledet list. He served on the Labor and Welfare Committee and the committee on drug abuse. After conflict with Ze'evi, he left the party in 1995 and founded Yamin Yisrael, and he lost his seat in 1996.

After leaving the Knesset he returned to the Technion. He is married to Miriam Lapid and lives in Yavne'el.