Dalia Rabin-Pelossof ( he, דליה רבין-פילוסוף, born 19 March 1950) is a former Israeli politician. The daughter of former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
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 ...
, she served as a member of the
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
for the
Centre Party,
New Way and the
Labor Party between 1999 and 2003.
Biography
Born in 1950, Rabin-Pelossof gained an LLB and worked as an attorney.
[Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, MK]
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
For the
1999 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 1999.
* 1999 electoral calendar
Africa
* 1999 Algerian presidential election
* 1999 Botswana general election
* 1999 Beninese parliamentary election
* 1999 Central African Republic presidential elect ...
she was placed sixth on the Centre Party list, and entered the Knesset as the party won six seats. She was appointed chairwoman of the Ethics Committee.
On 6 March 2001 she and two other Centre Party MKs broke away to establish a new faction, New Way.
[Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups]
Knesset website The day after, she was appointed Deputy
Minister of Defense
A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...
in
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon (; ; ; also known by his diminutive Arik, , born Ariel Scheinermann, ; 26 February 1928 – 11 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
S ...
's new government.
On 26 March the other two New Way members resigned from the Knesset and were replaced by Centre Party MKs, leaving Rabin-Pelossof alone in the faction.
[ On 7 May 2001 she joined ]One Israel
One Israel ( he, ישראל אחת, ''Yisrael Ahat'') was an alliance of the Labor Party, Meimad and Gesher created to run for the 1999 Knesset elections.
Background
One Israel was formed by Labor leader Ehud Barak in the run-up to the 199 ...
, which later became Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
-Meimad
Meimad ( he, מימד, an acronym for ''Medina Yehudit, Medina Demokratit'' (), lit., ''Jewish State, Democratic State'') is a moderate to left-wing religious Zionist political party in Israel. Founded in 1999, it is based on the ideology of the ...
.[ She resigned from her ministerial post on 1 August 2002. She lost her seat in the 2003 elections.
Rabin-Pelossof is married with two children.][ She is the chairperson of the ]Yitzhak Rabin Center
The Yitzhak Rabin Center is a library and research center in Tel Aviv, Israel, built in memory of assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The Yitzhak Rabin Center, designed by the Israeli architect, Moshe Safdie, sits on a hill comman ...
. Center Staff
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1950 births
Living people
Centre Party (Israel) politicians
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Deputy ministers of Israel
Israeli Jews
Israeli Labor Party politicians
Israeli lawyers
Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
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Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003)
New Way (Israel) politicians
Yitzhak Rabin
Tel Aviv University alumni
Israeli women lawyers
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