Alex Goldfarb ( he, אלכס גולדפרב, born 1 June 1947) is a former Israeli politician.

Early life

Alexander Goldfarb was born in

Seini Seini (German: ''Leuchtenburg''; Hungarian: ''Szinérváralja'') is a town in Maramureș County, Romania. It administers two villages, Săbișa (''Kissebespatak'') and Viile Apei (''Apahegy''). It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of ...

, Romania, and

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to Israel in 1963. After his military service he worked as an independent building contractor and a certified electrician. Later he worked for the

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and became active in the workers union. Alongside his employment he studied business management at the Israeli College of Management.

Political career

In 1992, Goldfarb ran in the Israeli legislative elections on the

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party list. In February 1994, he left the party along with

Esther Salmovitz Esther Salmovitz ( he, אסתר סלמוביץ, born 8 April 1948) is an Israeli lawyer and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 1996. Early life Born in Romania in 1948, Salomvitz made aliyah to Israel in 195 ...

and

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to establish

Yiud Yiud ( he, יעוד, lit. ''Mission'') was a small, short-lived political faction in Israel in the mid-1990s. Background The faction was formed on 7 February 1994 during the 13th Knesset when three MKs, Alex Goldfarb, Esther Salmovitz and Gonen ...

.Mergers and Splits amongst Parliamentary Groups
Knesset website The new party joined the administration of

Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until h ...

and Goldfarb was appointed Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction. When Rabin's government needed his support in order to approve the second Oslo agreements, which were brought to the government for ratification. Goldfarb promised the necessary majority but only after he was promised a

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and a driver, The outcome of the vote was 61 to 59. On 27 November 1995, Goldfarb and Salmovitz left Yiud to establish

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. The party did not run in the 1996 elections and Goldfarb lost his seat. He later joined the Labor Party and was later appointed to a position linked to the security industry by then-

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Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Binyamin "Fuad" Ben-Eliezer (, he, בנימין "פואד" בן אליעזר; 12 February 1936 – 28 August 2016) was an Iraqi-born Israeli politician and general. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1984 and 2014, and held several min ...

. After the Knesset and government, Goldfarb established a private company. He considered a run for Mayor of Ashkelon in 2007. In 2009 he ran for Mayor of nearby Beer Tuvia. Mayor Dror Shor was reelected.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldfarb, Alex (politician) 1947 births Living people People from Seini Romanian Jews Romanian emigrants to Israel Israeli electricians Tzomet politicians Yiud politicians Atid (political party) politicians Members of the 13th Knesset (1992–1996) Deputy ministers of Israel