Yigal Yasinov ( he, יגאל יאסינוב, born 27 April 1966) is a former

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i politician who 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 Shinui,

HaOlim HaOlim ( he, העולים, lit. ''The Immigrants'') was a short-lived one-man list of political parties in Israel, political faction in Israel. Background The faction was formed when Yigal Yasinov broke away from Shinui on 1 February 2006, toward ...

the National Union and Yisrael Beiteinu between 2003 and 2006.

Biography

Born in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

(today in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

), Yasinov immigrated to Israel in 1993. Yasinov joined Shinui prior to 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 ...

, and worked as a parliamentary assistant to Victor Brailovsky. Active in the party's

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

branch, he was placed 15th on the Shinui list for the 2003 elections, and entered the Knesset when the party won 15 seats. During his first term, he was a member of the Science and Technology Committee, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Public Petitions Committee, the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, and the Labour, Welfare and Health Committee. In January 2004 he was the victim of an attempted stabbing outside his home in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of

Ramat Sharett Ramat Sharett ( he, רמת שרת) (lit. "Sharett Heights") is a neighbourhood in southwest Jerusalem, located between Ramat Denya and Beit VeGan. The neighborhood was established in 1974 and named for Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel in 19 ...

. In November 2005 he was injured in a brawl with students during a protest in Rabin Square in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

. On 1 February 2006 he left Shinui to form the

faction,Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups
Knesset website which then merged into the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of the National Union. Towards the end of the Knesset term, Yisrael Beiteinu broke away from the National Union. He was placed 14th on the party's list for the

2006 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2006. * Elections in 2006 * Electoral calendar 2006 * 2006 Acehnese regional election * 2006 American Samoan legislative election * 2006 Bahraini parliamentary election * 2006 Costa Rican presidenti ...

, and lost his seat when they won 11 seats. After leaving politics he became Deputy Chairman of the

Jewish National Fund Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ...

.Macedonian Prime Minister Plants Olive Tree at Grove of the Nations
Jewish National Fund, 5 January 2010

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* 1966 births Living people People from Kharkiv Soviet Jews Ukrainian Jews Ukrainian emigrants to Israel Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006) Yisrael Beiteinu politicians Shinui politicians National Union (Israel) politicians HaOlim politicians {{Israel-politician-stub